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Charles Caleb Colton

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Effect Experience Guide Imagination
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Himself Human Listening Nature World
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Death Evidence Fools
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Anticipate Bliss Drink Enchant Love
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Fond Safety Secret
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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Book Friendship Instruction Return True
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear Human Nature Pretend
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Anand Thakur
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Conquer Grace Grant Refusal Safety Yourself
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Enjoyment Grace Greatness Himself Intimacy Rank
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Dangerous Mystery Sun
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Exercise Humility Low Place True
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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