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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
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
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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Cure Goodness Immoderate Remedy Willing Worst
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Anand Thakur
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Beginning Decision Determination Himself Professional
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Dangerous Mystery Sun
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
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Dangerous Deal Fools
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Care Difficult Earn Fortune Inheritance
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Himself Knowledge Reading Time Writing
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

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