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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

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
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Road Rough Saint
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Anand Thakur
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Knowledge
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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Deserve Fear Gratitude Kind Pay Powerful Praise
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
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.
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Curiosity Death Language Live Talk
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Goodness Man Motive Opinion Ourselves Strong Virtue
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Anand Thakur
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Mindset Science
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Anand Thakur
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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Accompany Establishment Oneself Reputation Secure Way
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Anand Thakur

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

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