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The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
No arguments will give courage to the coward.
The envious may die, but envy never.
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?
Censure is the tax a man pays to the publick for being eminent.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest Offices; so climbing is performed in the same Posture with creeping.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves constitutes the perfection of human nature.
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself,
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity, that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.