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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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 astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Astonishment Improvement Life People
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Road Rough Saint
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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Grave Precious Reputation Weakness Weapon Whisper
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Defect Enemy Learning Ourselves Side Success Surround World
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Attack Defense Enemy Friendship Goodness Violence
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Dangerous Mystery Sun
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Death Evidence Fools
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Care Command Influence Reading
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Effort Greatness Happiness Moments Paint Thinking
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Knowledge
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Adversity Himself Known
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Imagination Known Pain Pleasure Power
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Answer Examination Fools Greatness Man Preparation Wisdom
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Act Decision Deliberate Firm Grace
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Beginning Best End Himself Possible
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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Attention Fame Follow Funeral Grave Pay
To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Complete Integrity Oneself
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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Claw Far Feelings Himself Quite Secure
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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Each Other Family Ignorance Nation Pride

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