Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTemperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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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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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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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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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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