We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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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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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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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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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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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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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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