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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.
Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.
Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.
What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.