Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTo dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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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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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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