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The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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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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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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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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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve and still more rare to despise praise which we do.
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Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.
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Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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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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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
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This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
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