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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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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
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To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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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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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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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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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
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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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Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.
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