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

Charles Caleb Colton

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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Awkward Beginning Embarrassment Subject Theme Writing
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
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Enough Satisfaction True
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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Improvement Plagiarism Preparation Selection Skills Taste
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Better Dangerous Wait
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
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Integrity Man Ourselves Price Purchase Virtue
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Anand Thakur
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Anand Thakur
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Defect Enemy Learning Ourselves Side Success Surround World
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
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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Bright Calm Confusion Darkness Greatness Storm Time
Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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Miracle Person Reason Recover
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur

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

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