Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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