Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTemperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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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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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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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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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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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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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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