Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONButler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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