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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.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Deformity of the heart I call The worst deformity of all For what is form, or what is face, But the soul's index, or its case?
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This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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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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Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
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To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
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Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
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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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Most men know what they hate, few what they love.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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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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If you want enemies, excel others if you want friends, let others excel you.
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Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
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Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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