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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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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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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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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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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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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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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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