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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.
The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.
In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.