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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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God Goodness Prayer Prevent Work
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Execution Fine Hide Source
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Enemy Harm Yourself

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