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That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.
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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All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
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He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
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