Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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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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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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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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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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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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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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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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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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