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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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Attachment Authority Basic Establishment Family Government Person Value
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Dangerous Mystery Sun
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Fashion Happiness Love Pride Starve
To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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Anand Thakur
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Adversity Photograph Reverse Success World
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Act Decision Deliberate Firm Grace
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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Difference Effect Life Philosophy Religion
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Choice Known Willing Yourself
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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Affect Appearance Assume Best Woman
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Anand Thakur
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Greatness Life Lying Man Success
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
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
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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Cheerful Genius Gravity Harm Mistake Science
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Blank Erase Errors Ignorance Writing
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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God Goodness Prayer Prevent Work
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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Bad Better Goodness Himself Stand Vice Virtue Worst
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Man Oneself Praise Raise Support
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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Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Energy Enough Place Plant Virtue
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
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

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