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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Beginning End Magnificiant Mathematics Study
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
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Character Measurement True Watch
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Choice Known Willing Yourself
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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Bright Calm Confusion Darkness Greatness Storm 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
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Effort Greatness Happiness Moments Paint Thinking
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Destroy Enjoyment Improvement Pleasure Sun Woman
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Affect Determination Success Virtue
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
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Care Difficult Earn Fortune Inheritance
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
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

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