Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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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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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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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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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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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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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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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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