• Virtues

  Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

  3.6 · 39 votes · 130 reads

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• Feelings

  Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

  5.0 · 27 votes · 134 reads

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• Society

  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.

  4.4 · 40 votes · 46 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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.

  4.4 · 14 votes · 9 reads

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• Virtues

  Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

  4.0 · 22 votes · 40 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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.

  4.8 · 23 votes · 157 reads

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• Virtues

  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.

  3.3 · 21 votes · 101 reads

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• Feelings

  Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

  3.8 · 35 votes · 38 reads

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• Virtues

  Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed.

  4.4 · 19 votes · 97 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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.

  3.9 · 62 votes · 44 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

  4.3 · 53 votes · 148 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

  3.5 · 9 votes · 177 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

  4.2 · 19 votes · 184 reads

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• Time

  Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

  4.7 · 50 votes · 197 reads

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• Virtues

  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.

  4.2 · 33 votes · 55 reads

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• Time

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

  3.6 · 40 votes · 43 reads

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• Society

  The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

  4.1 · 24 votes · 111 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

  3.0 · 9 votes · 80 reads

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• Feelings

  The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

  4.3 · 10 votes · 113 reads

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• Virtues

  The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

  3.2 · 17 votes · 115 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

  4.7 · 63 votes · 175 reads

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• Time

  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.

  3.2 · 24 votes · 84 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

  3.6 · 10 votes · 156 reads

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• Time

  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.

  4.2 · 15 votes · 153 reads

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• Virtues

  There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

  3.5 · 10 votes · 190 reads

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• Feelings

  There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

  4.4 · 11 votes · 165 reads

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• Feelings

  There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

  4.6 · 29 votes · 100 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

  3.2 · 13 votes · 116 reads

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• Various

  Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

  4.7 · 38 votes · 162 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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.

  3.1 · 45 votes · 131 reads

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• Virtues

  To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

  4.8 · 48 votes · 58 reads

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• Society

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

  3.3 · 50 votes · 170 reads

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• Time

  To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

  3.4 · 5 votes · 42 reads

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• Virtues

  To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

  3.0 · 30 votes · 130 reads

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• Art and Culture

  To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

  3.1 · 20 votes · 69 reads

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• Feelings

  True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

  3.0 · 33 votes · 77 reads

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• Society

  Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

  4.7 · 49 votes · 48 reads

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• Various

  We ask advice but we mean approbation.

  3.5 · 20 votes · 104 reads

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• Feelings

  We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

  4.6 · 44 votes · 195 reads

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• Virtues

  We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

  4.9 · 13 votes · 109 reads

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