Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMost 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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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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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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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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The 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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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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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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