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Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
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Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
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Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
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Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
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Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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