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Is made more sacred by adversity.
Topic: Adversity
Source: None
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Topic: Adversity
Source: None
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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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; when we succeed; it betrays us.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.
Topic: Appearance
Source: None
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak
ones.
Topic: Applause
Source: Lacon (p. 205)
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Topic: Applause
Source: None
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That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most
knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
Topic: Authorship
Source: Lacon (preface)
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Topic: Bigotry
Source: None
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Topic: Charity
Source: None
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Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of
goods.
Topic: Choice
Source: Lacon (p. 362)
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Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.
Topic: Choice
Source: None
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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
Topic: Custom
Source: None
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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Detail
Source: None
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It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
Topic: Disease
Source: None
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Topic: Existence
Source: None
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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Topic: Eye
Source: None
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Source: None
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Source: None
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Topic: Flattery
Source: Lacon (p. 127)
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
Topic: Fraud
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Friends
Source: Lacon (p. 80)
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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Topic: Friends / Friendship
Source: None
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Topic: Friends / Friendship
Source: None
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Topic: Gossip
Source: None
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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Topic: Imitation
Source: None
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Topic: Integrity
Source: None
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Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.
Topic: Law
Source: None
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.
Topic: Merit
Source: None
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of
our friends upon them.
Topic: Misfortune
Source: Lacon (p. 238)
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Topic: Moderation
Source: None
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Topic: Negativity
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Opportunity
Source: None
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
Topic: Past
Source: None
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Topic: Perspective
Source: None
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to
know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the
pains of power are real, its pleasure imaginary.
Topic: Power
Source: Lacon (p. 255)
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