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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton

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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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Attack Body Mindset Privilege Wealth
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Mindset Science
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Circumstance Commerce Flourish Shore Wave
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Road Rough Saint
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Better Dangerous Wait
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
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Body Knowledge Man Soul Study
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Greatness Majority Rare Reading Thinking Writing
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Establishment Principle Test Value
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Energy Enough Place Plant Virtue
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Deep Fools Silence Wisdom

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