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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Female Improvement Intellectual Male Pledge
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
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Better Dangerous Wait
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
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Adversity Photograph Reverse Success World
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
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
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Brave Death Road Sense Terrible
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Astonishment Improvement Life People
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Enemy Harm Yourself
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Accomplishment Easy Hide Hypocrisy Learning Pretend
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Doubt Pass Temple Wisdom
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Choice Known Willing Yourself
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Himself Human Listening Nature World
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

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