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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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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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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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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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