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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIf 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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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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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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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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