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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Food Herself Honor Stability
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Conquer Grace Grant Refusal Safety Yourself
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Adversity Blessing Greatness Time
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Experience Himself Hope Prodigy Young
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Carry Compare Talk Weight
A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Empty Himself Man Profound Reserve Suspect
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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Cheerful Life Old Sun Winter
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Cure Goodness Immoderate Remedy Willing Worst
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Act Decision Deliberate Firm Grace
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Allow Error Flirt Freedom Ourselves Perfection

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