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Lacon (1820)
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Conversation is the music of the mind, an intellectual orchestra, where all the instruments should bear a part, but where none should play together.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us.
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right, without them.
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If we can advance any propositions that are both true and new, these are indisputably our own, by right of discovery; and if we can repeat what is old more briefly and brightly than others, this also becomes our own, by right of conquest.
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Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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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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He that has never suffered adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Were we as eloquent as angels, yet should we please some men, some women, and some children, much more by listening, than by talking.
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It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has further to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance.
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Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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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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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
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When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
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From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.
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Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass, before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats.
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Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
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We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
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We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
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Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Charles Caleb Colton
Born:
1780
Died:
1832
(aged 52)
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