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The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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