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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Circumstance Commerce Flourish Shore Wave
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Build Food Home Honor Monument Ourselves Pull Reward
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Enemy Harm Yourself
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
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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Allow Error Flirt Freedom Ourselves Perfection
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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Art Fools Hear Moments Publish Reading Sink Talk Value
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Care Difficult Earn Fortune Inheritance
Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Book Life Logic Mess Midst Time
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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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
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Experience Himself Hope Prodigy Young
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Female Improvement Intellectual Male Pledge

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