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Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
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When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.
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Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
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There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads.
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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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To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.
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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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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
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True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes
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It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
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We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.
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A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do therefore never go abroad in search of your wants if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
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