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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Caleb Colton

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear Human Nature Pretend
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Silence Word Yourself
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Brave Courage Dangerous Man Opinion
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
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Enough Satisfaction True
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Coward Love Power
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Anand Thakur
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Dangerous Mystery Sun
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Enemy Harm Yourself
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Insult Mindset Vulgar
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
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Affect Determination Success Virtue

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