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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men but when they do, they go greater lengths.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
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Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.
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It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.
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Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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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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Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart proceed murmurings but there can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head, for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
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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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Make no enemies he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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