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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

Charles Caleb Colton

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Body Knowledge Man Soul Study
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Affect Appearance Assume Best Woman
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Capital Knowledge Regulation Representation Sign Word
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Coward Love Power
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Crime Severe Victim
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Circumstance Commerce Flourish Shore Wave
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Inspirational Run Woman Yourself
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
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
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Case Empty Follow Misfortune Pain Shadow Substance
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Difficult Errors Favor Old Prejudice Run Task
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Common Privacy Stock Theory
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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Attention Fame Follow Funeral Grave Pay
Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Miracle Person Reason Recover
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Happiness Man Misery Pleasure

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

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