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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
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It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind for even the weakest have been captivated by it and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.
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When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness but we ought rather to suspect our own.
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
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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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Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
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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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Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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He who knows himself knows others.
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In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another is there any harm in letting it alone?
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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
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