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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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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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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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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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