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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Hate Man Ourselves Sincere Success
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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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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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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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Fond Safety Secret
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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