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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.
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The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
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Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.
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As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.
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If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.
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