Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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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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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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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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