Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?
O sweet content!
Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplexed?
O punishment!
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Every one must see daily instances of people who complain, from a mere
habit of complaining.
--_Graves._
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A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for
paying it.
--_J. C. Hare._
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Illuminate me with a ray of your intelligence!
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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most
elegant of all compliments.
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_Legitimate Sport_--Those who fish for compliments deserve to get a
bite.
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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the
wind.
--_Hood._
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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with.
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry
their comfort about with them.
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Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
--_Ruskin._
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Many persons are obliged to their imagination for more than
three-fourths of their importance.
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Discuss your plans with many, decide on them with few, or by yourself.
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Between right and wrong never waver a moment.
--_From the German._
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Confidence always gives pleasure to the man in whom it is placed.
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No one so sure but he may miss.
--_Dutch._
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Don't cry hurrah till you are over the bridge.
--_From the German._
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Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
--_Wm. Pitt._
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He who knows the road, can ride at full trot.
--_From the Italian._
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Never put much confidence in those who put no confidence in others.
--_Hare._
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A good conscience is sometimes sold for money, but never bought with it.
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Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good
conscience never costs as much as it is worth.
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A clear conscience is a good pillow.
--_Kingsley._
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A quiet conscience makes one so serene!
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Conscience is the chamber of justice.
--_Origen._
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Conscience may be said to be the voice of God within us.
--_Aughey._
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Conscience, that sound of God in the human heart, whose "still small
voice" the loudest revelry can not drown.
--_W. H. Harrison._
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_Consistency_--Thou art a jewel!
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Is there no constancy in earthly things?
No happiness in us, but what must alter?
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Do even as you will, that this dispute live not between us as a
consuming fire forever!
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