Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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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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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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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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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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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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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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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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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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