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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

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There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.

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Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

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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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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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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

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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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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

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Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

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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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