Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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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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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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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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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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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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