True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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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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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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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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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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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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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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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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