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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

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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Affect Appearance Assume Best Woman
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
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
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Anand Thakur
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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Bright Calm Confusion Darkness Greatness Storm Time
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
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
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Afraid Coward Death Prevent Suicide Time
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Care Command Influence Reading
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Hurry Mark Mindset Oneself Strong Weakness
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Circumstance Commerce Flourish Shore Wave
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Himself Human Listening Nature World
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Defect Enemy Learning Ourselves Side Success Surround World

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.

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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.

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