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Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are sermons in stones, in healthy books, and good in everything.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform. And men of genius ought not to be chagrined if they see themselves neglected. For when we communicate knowledge, we are raised in our own estimation but when we receive it, we are lowered.
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There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
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In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
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Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.
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It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
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Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.
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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.
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He who knows himself knows others.
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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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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.
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It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.
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