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" Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. "

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" Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. "

" It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. "

" There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. "

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Self-Confidence

" That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. "

" A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. "

" No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. "

" I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. "

" The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. "

" There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. "

" If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. "

" So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. "

" Actions are visible, though motives are secret. "

" Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. "

" All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. "

" Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. "

" Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. "

" By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. "

" It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. "

" He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. "