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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Deformity of the heart I call The worst deformity of all For what is form, or what is face, But the soul's index, or its case?
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Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
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Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
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Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.
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So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
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Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.
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There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined if the latter, gross and sensual.
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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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We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.
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He who knows himself knows others.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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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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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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