Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of…

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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a...

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a...

Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter

Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much,...

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much,...

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things...

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things...

Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity...

Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity...

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the...

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the...

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he...

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he...

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Know or listen to those who know.

Know or listen to those who know.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel,...

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel,...

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

When desire dies, fear is born.

When desire dies, fear is born.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even...

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even...