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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
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
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear Human Nature Pretend
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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Beneath Herself Ignorance Lying Pride Shame
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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God Goodness Prayer Prevent Work
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Adversity Blessing Greatness Time
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Better Dangerous Wait
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Creature Excellence Feeling Language Learning School
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Complete Integrity Oneself
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Relative Rich Wealth
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
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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Break Failure Strength Success
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
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Bad Injury Strength Weakness
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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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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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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