Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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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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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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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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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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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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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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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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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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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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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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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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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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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