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Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.
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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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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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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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Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
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When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.
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All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
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True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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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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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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