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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Goodness Man Motive Opinion Ourselves Strong Virtue
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
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Mindset Science
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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Destruction Earth Existence Seed Society
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Doubt Pass Temple Wisdom
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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Attachment Authority Basic Establishment Family Government Person Value
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
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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Appreciate Beautiful Intimate Substance True
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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Capital Knowledge Regulation Representation Sign Word
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Food Happiness Pride
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Bear Beggar Refusal
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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Curiosity Death Language Live Talk
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Born Eyes Man Oneself Proverb

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