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All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.
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In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another is there any harm in letting it alone?
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