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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Bound Greatness Length Man Woman
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Doubt Pass Temple Wisdom
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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Each Other Family Ignorance Nation Pride
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Brave Death Road Sense Terrible
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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God Goodness Prayer Prevent Work
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Better Dangerous Wait
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
To 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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Bitter Dare Enemy Live Rare
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Advantage Ourselves Present Time
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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Brave Courage Dangerous Man Opinion
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bright Calm Confusion Darkness Greatness Storm Time

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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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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