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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Allow Discipline Fear Myself
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Female Fortune Herself Impatience Lover Master Opportunity Submit
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Brave Death Road Sense Terrible
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Build Food Home Honor Monument Ourselves Pull Reward
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Deep Fools Silence Wisdom
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Goodness Greatness Life Man
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Coward Love Power
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Insult Mindset Vulgar
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Difference Fools Greatness Happiness Wisdom
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Book Friendship Goodness
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bear Beggar Refusal
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Atheist Communication Destruction Light Mistake System Warmth Yourself Zeal

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