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Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.
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Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.
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By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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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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It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind for even the weakest have been captivated by it and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.
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Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.
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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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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done and when they disapprove you, what good.
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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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He who knows himself knows others.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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If you want enemies, excel others if you want friends, let others excel you.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
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