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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. (Charles Caleb Colton)
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. View quote
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. View quote
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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. View quote
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. View quote
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good. View quote
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. View quote
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. View quote
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. View quote
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. View quote
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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. (Charles Caleb Colton)
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. View quote
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. View quote
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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win. View quote
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. View quote
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The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. View quote
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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. View quote
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There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. View quote
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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. View quote
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. View quote
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A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. View quote
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Mystery is not profoundness. View quote
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