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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Exercise Humility Low Place True
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Fond Safety Secret
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Effect Experience Guide Imagination
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Mindset Science
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Attack Defense Enemy Friendship Goodness Violence
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Man Oneself Praise Raise Support
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Body Knowledge Man Soul Study
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Allow Discipline Fear Myself
Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Book Life Logic Mess Midst Time
He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Claw Far Feelings Himself Quite Secure
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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Anand Thakur
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Faith Fraud Greedy Imposter Prudent Swallow

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