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Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.
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No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked no growth more certain.
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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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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
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It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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A wise man may be duped as well as a fool but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
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