Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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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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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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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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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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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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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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