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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Afford Man Poor
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Common Privacy Stock Theory
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Hate Man Ourselves Sincere Success
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Defect Enemy Learning Ourselves Side Success Surround World
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Beginning Decision Determination Himself Professional
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Friendship Health Known Lost Sound True
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
I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Books Flower Injury Observation Steal
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Himself Knowledge Reading Time Writing
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bright Calm Confusion Darkness Greatness Storm Time
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Improvement Plagiarism Preparation Selection Skills Taste
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Enemy Hold Obligation Power

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