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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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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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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
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There can be no Christianity where there is no charity
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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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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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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.
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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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The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.
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Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.
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Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.
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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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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.
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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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Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
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The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.
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Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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You cannot separate charity and religion.
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My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
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