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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

Charles Caleb Colton

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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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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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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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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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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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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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