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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a living sacrifice to sin.
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Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
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The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.
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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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Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.
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None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
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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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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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Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
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There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
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Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.
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