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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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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
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Adversity Blessing Greatness Time
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Friendship Health Known Lost Sound True
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Case Empty Follow Misfortune Pain Shadow Substance
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Goodness Man Motive Opinion Ourselves Strong Virtue
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Amount Jealous Rich
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Bound Greatness Length Man Woman
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
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Energy Enough Place Plant Virtue
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Build Food Home Honor Monument Ourselves Pull Reward
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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Attack Body Mindset Privilege Wealth

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