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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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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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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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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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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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