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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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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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Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.
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Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
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Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
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Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
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Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
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A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
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The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.
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When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.
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The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.
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The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
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There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!
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