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Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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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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In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done and when they disapprove you, what good.
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Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.
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Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.
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