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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living; they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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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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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.
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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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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Analogy, although it is not infallible, is yet that telescope of the mind by which it is marvellously assisted in the discovery of both physical and moral truth.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.
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None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.
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We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.
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With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
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Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
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A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.
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Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
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Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
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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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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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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
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By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
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He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.
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Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Charles Caleb Colton
Born:
1780
Died:
1832
(aged 52)
Bio:
Charles Caleb Colton was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.
Known for:
Lacon (1820)
Modern Antiquity, and Other Poems
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