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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Grand Misery Passion Success
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Food Herself Honor Stability
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Fake Herself Nurse Rock Truth
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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Destroy Enjoyment Improvement Pleasure Sun Woman
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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Beneath Herself Ignorance Lying Pride Shame
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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Cheerful Genius Gravity Harm Mistake Science
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Current Doubt Kind Man Utility
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
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Act Goodness Growth Point
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Mindset Science
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
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Crime Severe Victim
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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Atheist Communication Destruction Light Mistake System Warmth Yourself Zeal

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

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