The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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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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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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The 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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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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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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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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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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