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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.
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Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention there are many books that owe their success to two things good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them
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Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.
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Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
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Make no enemies he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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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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Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
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Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.
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