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In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.
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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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Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
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If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
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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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Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
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Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart proceed murmurings but there can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head, for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
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Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
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Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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