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.
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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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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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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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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