Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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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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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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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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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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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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