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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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Destruction Earth Existence Seed Society
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Capital Knowledge Regulation Representation Sign Word
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Coward Love Power
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Conquer Grace Grant Refusal Safety Yourself
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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Money Person Purpose Secret
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Brave Death Road Sense Terrible
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Alone Book Himself Man Study
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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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.
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Cure Goodness Immoderate Remedy Willing Worst
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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Attention Fame Follow Funeral Grave Pay
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Course Greatness Intelligence Man Mindset Vulgar
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Dangerous Deal Fools
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Happiness Man Misery Pleasure
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Logic Science Togetherness Tools Work
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Attack Defense Enemy Friendship Goodness Violence

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

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