Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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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.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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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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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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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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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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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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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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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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