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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

Charles Caleb Colton

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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Choice Known Willing Yourself
A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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Empty Himself Man Profound Reserve Suspect
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
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
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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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
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
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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Cheerful Life Old Sun Winter
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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