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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.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--a power to accomplish all that we undertake for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men.
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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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If you want enemies, excel others if you want friends, let others excel you.
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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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Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!
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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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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.
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The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.
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We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one it is established, and it is understood.
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He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.
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Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.
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Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads.
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Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
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How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.
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Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.
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