I hold it to be

I hold it to be
I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him
  

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All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.
In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.
Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.
Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous
Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.
You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
Necessity truns lion into fox.
Thehardest step is over the threshold.
Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.