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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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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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All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
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There are three difficulties in authorship-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game in which the Booksellers are the Kings The Critics the Knaves the Public, the Pack and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.
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Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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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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From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.
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I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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