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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLogic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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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
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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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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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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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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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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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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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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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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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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It 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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