There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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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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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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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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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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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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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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