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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Case Empty Follow Misfortune Pain Shadow Substance
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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Break Failure Strength Success
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Appreciate Beautiful Intimate Substance True
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
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
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Chain Discover Mindset
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Relative Rich Wealth
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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Literature Sentence Speech Talk
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Silence Word Yourself
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Death Evidence Fools
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
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
The 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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Attachment Authority Basic Establishment Family Government Person Value

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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