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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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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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It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
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The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
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Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
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Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?
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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.
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Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
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Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
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In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
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There can be no Christianity where there is no charity
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Genius, in one respect, is like gold numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.
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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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