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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.
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Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
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If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.
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In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.
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Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
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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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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.
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The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
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It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind for even the weakest have been captivated by it and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
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A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself, but on others, the pretext of his attack. He thus engages the world as a partisan in his quarrel, and dignifies his private hate, by giving it the air of disinterested resentment.
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
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Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind despatch of a strong one.
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There can be no Christianity where there is no charity
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