Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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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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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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