If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONDoubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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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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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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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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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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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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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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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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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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