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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... →
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American... →
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will... →
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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... →