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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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Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.
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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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Genius, in one respect, is like gold numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
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Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
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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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There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
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A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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