When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.
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Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.Charles Colton
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined if the latter, gross and sensual.
Charles Colton
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
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There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec
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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
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Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit posterity will regard the merit rather than the man
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