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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not…
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around…
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The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of…
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To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger…
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The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
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It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.
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Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic…
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that…
— John Donne
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No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with…
— Samuel Johnson
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
— Martial
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The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.
— Richard Whately
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Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all…
— Lord Byron
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
— Orson Scott Card
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He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
— Lord Byron
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Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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