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Act well your part; there all honor lies.
[ Honor ]
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
[ Prejudice ]
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
[ Self Knowledge ]
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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 ]
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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 ]
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
[ Pride ]
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Most women have no characters at all.
[ Women ]
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
[ Hatred ]
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
[ Motivation ]
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At every word a reputation dies.
[ Gossip ]
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
[ Gossip ]
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
[ Progress ]
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True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
[ Argument ]
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
[ Argument ]
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Passions are the gales of life.
[ Passion ]
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
[ Passion ]
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
[ Passion ]
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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
[ Judgment ]
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Health consists with temperance alone.
[ Health ]
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
[ Praise ]
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