Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.Charles Caleb Colton
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live for it.
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From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer it dignifies meanness it magnifies littleness to what is contemptible, it gives authority to what is law, exaltation.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after the date.
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