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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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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.
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Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.
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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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Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
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It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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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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We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.
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Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
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Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
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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.
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There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.
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Mental pleasures never cloy unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
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The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.
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The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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