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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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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.
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Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.
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Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.
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By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
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We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one it is established, and it is understood.
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Most men know what they hate, few what they love.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
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Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.
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Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.
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It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
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In science, reason is the guide in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
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He who knows himself knows others.
Charles Caleb Colton
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
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Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.
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Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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