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| Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat |
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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. |
| Examination |
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| Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right |
| Falsehood |
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| 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 |
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| Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. |
| Genius |
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| Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer |
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| Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them |
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| Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible |
| Mind; Wealth |
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| Habit will reconcile us to everything but change |
| Habit |
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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. |
| Happiness |
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| He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. |
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| He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. |
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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. |
| Knowledge |
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| He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and t |
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| He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. |
| Study |
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| Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. |
| Honor |
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| Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker |
| Hope |
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| Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils |
| Foresight |
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