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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
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It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.
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An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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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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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
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The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
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There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.
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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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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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There are two things that bestow consequence great possession, or great debts.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
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Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.
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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.
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