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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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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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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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