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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform. And men of genius ought not to be chagrined if they see themselves neglected. For when we communicate knowledge, we are raised in our own estimation but when we receive it, we are lowered.
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In science, reason is the guide in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another is there any harm in letting it alone?
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The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.
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The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.
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Habit will reconcile us to everything but change
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
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True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
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Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
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It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
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He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
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