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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Charles Caleb Colton

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround
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
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Bound Greatness Length Man Woman
A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
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
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Attack Defense Enemy Friendship Goodness Violence
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
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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Beginning Best End Himself Possible
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Course Greatness Intelligence Man Mindset Vulgar
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Anticipate Bliss Drink Enchant Love
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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Goal Hollow Motive Place Show True
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Crime Severe Victim
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
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Care Difficult Earn Fortune Inheritance

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

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