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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Charles Caleb Colton

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
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Fake Herself Nurse Rock Truth
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.
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Anand Thakur
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
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
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Anand Thakur
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Difference Fools Greatness Happiness Wisdom
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Avoid Better Dangerous Hurricane Shipwreck Storm Wait
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Anand Thakur
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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Literature Sentence Speech Talk
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Act Goodness Growth Point
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
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Common Privacy Stock Theory
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Certain Knowledge Term

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

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