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Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.
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He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
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Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
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Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.
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Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
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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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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
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