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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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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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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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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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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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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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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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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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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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