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• Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

  Charles Simmons

  Fire, Mark, Malice

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.233

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• Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

  Charles Simmons

  Vanity, Use, Care

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.541

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• Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

  Charles Simmons

  Humor, Shields, Darts

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• Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

  Charles Simmons

  Men, Self, Joy

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• A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

  Charles Simmons

  Children, Honor, Example

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.176

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• The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

  Charles Simmons

  Numbers, Sides, Smallest

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• Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

  Charles Simmons

  Witty, Order, Expression

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.3

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• For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

  Charles Simmons

  Hype, Shame, Repentance

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• Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."

  Charles Simmons

  Wrath, Giving, Way

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• It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

  Charles Simmons

  Intelligence, Intellectual, Useless

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• Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

  Charles Simmons

  Heart, Evil, Mind

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• Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

  Charles Simmons

  Failure, Excuse, Confession

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• Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

  Charles Simmons

  Choices, Fruit, Good Intentions

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