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Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.
Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.