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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Attachment Authority Basic Establishment Family Government Person Value
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Exercise Humility Low Place True
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Difference Health Man Money Poor Rich
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Friendship Health Known Lost Sound True
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Anand Thakur
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Hurry Mark Mindset Oneself Strong Weakness
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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Experience Finding Improvement Live Moral Talent Weakness
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Man Oneself Praise Raise Support
A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
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
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Establishment Principle Test Value
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Happiness Leadership Route

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

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