Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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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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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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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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