Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWhen you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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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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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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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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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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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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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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