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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
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There are two things that bestow consequence great possession, or great debts.
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The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
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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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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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There are male as well as female gossips.
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The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.
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What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
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Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are sermons in stones, in healthy books, and good in everything.
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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
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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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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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