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  • Act well your part; there all honor lies. [ Honor ]


  • All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye. [ Prejudice ]


  • Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. [ Self Knowledge ]


  • The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties. [ Christianity ]


  • Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel. [ Pride ]


  • At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. [ Pride ]


  • Most women have no characters at all. [ Women ]


  • To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. [ Hatred ]


  • Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain. [ Motivation ]


  • At every word a reputation dies. [ Gossip ]


  • And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too. [ Gossip ]


  • Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. [ Progress ]


  • True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit. [ Argument ]


  • When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. [ Argument ]


  • Passions are the gales of life. [ Passion ]


  • Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. [ Passion ]


  • The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. [ Passion ]


  • It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own. [ Judgment ]


  • Health consists with temperance alone. [ Health ]


  • Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men. [ Praise ]


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