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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Jonathan Swift

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud

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