He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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When 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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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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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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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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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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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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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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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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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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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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