If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.Charles Caleb Colton
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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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 seek it the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
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The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
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Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
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