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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.
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Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
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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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It is a common observation that any fool can get money but they are not wise that think so.
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Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.
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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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Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.
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It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.
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Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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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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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.
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Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
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