Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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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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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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