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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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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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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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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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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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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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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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