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In science, reason is the guide in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
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Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
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Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
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Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.
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Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
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Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.
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When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked no growth more certain.
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Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
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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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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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