He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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