Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNext to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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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 true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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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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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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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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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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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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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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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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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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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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