He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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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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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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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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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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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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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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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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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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