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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Exercise Humility Low Place True
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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Money Person Purpose Secret
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Mindset Science
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Insult Mindset Vulgar
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Cruelty Generosity Greatness Humility Lover
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Anand Thakur
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Execution Fine Hide Source
The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Advantage Ourselves Present Time
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Hate Man Ourselves Sincere Success
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Enough Satisfaction True
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Earn Enjoyment Liberty People Raise
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Faith Fraud Greedy Imposter Prudent Swallow
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
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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Literature Sentence Speech Talk
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Silence Word Yourself

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