True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONGod is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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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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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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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.
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