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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Caleb Colton

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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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Bitter Dare Enemy Live Rare
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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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
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Brave Courage Dangerous Man Opinion
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Food Happiness Pride
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Greatness Majority Rare Reading Thinking Writing
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Amount Jealous Rich
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility

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