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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

Charles Caleb Colton

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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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Books Flower Injury Observation Steal
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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God Goodness Prayer Prevent Work
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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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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Avoid Better Dangerous Hurricane Shipwreck Storm Wait
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Astonishment Improvement Life People
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Fond Safety Secret
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
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Body Knowledge Man Soul Study
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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Inspirational Run Woman Yourself
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
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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Answer Examination Fools Greatness Man Preparation Wisdom
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
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
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Brave Death Road Sense Terrible
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Chain Discover Mindset
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Adversity Photograph Reverse Success World
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Born Eyes Man Oneself Proverb
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Goodness Man Motive Opinion Ourselves Strong Virtue
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Beginning End Magnificiant Mathematics Study
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Complete Integrity Oneself
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife

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