We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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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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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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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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