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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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Deserve Fear Gratitude Kind Pay Powerful Praise
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Food Herself Honor Stability
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
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
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
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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Better Certain Knowledge Term
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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Discharge Head Influence Lose
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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Difference Effect Life Philosophy Religion
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Hate Man Ourselves Sincere Success
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
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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Money Person Purpose Secret
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 awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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Awkward Beginning Embarrassment Subject Theme Writing
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Compose Goodness Observation Writing
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Capital Knowledge Regulation Representation Sign Word

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