Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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