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| Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another. |
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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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| Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies |
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| Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. |
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| Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. |
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| Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea. |
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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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| Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip. |
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| Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. |
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| Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength |
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| Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun; and the two are never far apart |
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| Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it. |
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| Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion. |
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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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| Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. |
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| Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. |
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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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| Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused. |
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| Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit. |
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