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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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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''.
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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