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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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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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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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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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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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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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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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