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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Greatness Life Lying Man Success
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Creature Excellence Feeling Language Learning School
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Experience Himself Hope Prodigy Young
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Deep Enjoyment Health Jealous Money
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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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.
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Born Eyes Man Oneself Proverb
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Execution Fine Hide Source
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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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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Experience Finding Improvement Live Moral Talent Weakness
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
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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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
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit

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