Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONRevenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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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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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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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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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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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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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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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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