| To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. |
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| Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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| There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. |
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- Charles Caleb Colton |
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