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Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.
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We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.
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Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
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By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
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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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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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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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It is a common observation that any fool can get money but they are not wise that think so.
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A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.
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