Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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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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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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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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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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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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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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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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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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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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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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A 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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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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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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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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