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True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.
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The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
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Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.
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When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
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There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.
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Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
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Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
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Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
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In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
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