Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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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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If 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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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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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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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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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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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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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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