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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

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
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Female Improvement Intellectual Male Pledge
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Advantage Ourselves Present Time
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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Literature Sentence Speech Talk
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
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
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Curiosity Death Language Live Talk
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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Cure Goodness Immoderate Remedy Willing Worst
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Greatness Life Lying Man Success
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Goodness Greatness Life Man
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Happiness Man Misery Pleasure
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
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
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Earn Enjoyment Liberty People Raise
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
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
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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Anand Thakur
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
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Circumstance Commerce Flourish Shore Wave
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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Current Doubt Kind Man Utility
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Execution Fine Hide Source
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Best Light Material Moral
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Blank Erase Errors Ignorance Writing

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