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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

Charles Caleb Colton

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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Beginning Best End Himself Possible
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Enemy Harm Yourself
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
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Anand Thakur
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Character Measurement True Watch
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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Claw Far Feelings Himself Quite Secure
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Exercise Humility Low Place True
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Alone Book Himself Man Study
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
To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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Anand Thakur
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Chain Discover Mindset
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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