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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

Charles Caleb Colton

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: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Imagination Known Pain Pleasure Power
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Literature Sentence Speech Talk
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Insult Mindset Vulgar
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Creature Excellence Feeling Language Learning School
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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Happiness Man Misery Pleasure
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Adult Convinience Finding Purity Truth
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Common Privacy Stock Theory
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Amount Jealous Rich
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Knowledge
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Act Goodness Growth Point
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Adversity Blessing Greatness Time
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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Cheerful Life Old Sun Winter
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Anand Thakur
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

Away Man Production Throw Time
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bright Intellectual Shine Sun

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

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