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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Astonishment Improvement Life People
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Coward Love Power
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility
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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Bright Calm Confusion Darkness Greatness Storm Time
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Accomplishment Easy Hide Hypocrisy Learning Pretend
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Certain Knowledge Term
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
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
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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Anand Thakur
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Bear Beggar Refusal
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
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Bad Injury Strength Weakness
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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Discharge Head Influence Lose
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Afraid Coward Death Prevent Suicide Time

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