Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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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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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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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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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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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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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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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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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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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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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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