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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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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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Mental pleasures never cloy unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
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Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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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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Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.
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Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Miss Edgeworth and Mme. de Stael have proved that there is no sex in style and Mme. la Roche Jacqueline, and the Duchesse d'Angouleme have proved that there is no sex in courage.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.
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Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
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Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
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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.
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The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.
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That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
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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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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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