It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWords 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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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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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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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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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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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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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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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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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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