The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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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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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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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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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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