He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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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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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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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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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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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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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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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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