Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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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There are male as well as female gossips.
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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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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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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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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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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