Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPhysicians 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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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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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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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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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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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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