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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Goodness Greatness Life Man
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Integrity Man Ourselves Price Purchase Virtue
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Better Certain Knowledge Term
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
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Destroy Enjoyment Improvement Pleasure Sun Woman
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Difference Health Man Money Poor Rich
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
He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Claw Far Feelings Himself Quite Secure
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Difference Fools Greatness Happiness Wisdom
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
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Execution Fine Hide Source
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Fashion Happiness Love Pride Starve
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.
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Miracle Person Reason Recover
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Doubt Pass Temple Wisdom

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

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