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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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God is on the side of virtue for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .
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Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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