Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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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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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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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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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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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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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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