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Show To boast about one's relations is to publish ones inferiority. In the book of life, as in the [unreadable line], the receipts? come at the end. It is part of good breeding that a man would be polite even to himself. The man faithful to principle is never ???; the victim of expediency always. Men who think themselves equal to the rule are often found unequal to obedience. Conscience makes a coward only where there is vice, not where there is purity. A man who gives his children habits of industry, provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. Many a self-made man would have done better by himself had he let the contract out to somebody else. It is an admitted fact that men who use their brains live longer, other things being equal, than those who do not. Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. A wise man will always know that he is a great deal of a fool; but a very big fool always looks upon himself as a very wise fellow. The fellowship that does not beget affinity evokes antipathy; the mind that has not learned to love is dangerously near to hate. By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is his superior. When a man refuses to excuse himself for a mean act, he has taken a long stride toward becoming a Christian. A scandal monger is not simply the man who tells all he knows, but the man who tells more than he knows. |