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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Body Cure Discover Human Mindset Weakness
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Accomplishment Easy Hide Hypocrisy Learning Pretend
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Astonishment Improvement Life People
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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Curiosity Death Language Live Talk
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Coward Love Power
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Brave Death Road Sense Terrible
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Relative Rich Wealth
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Away Man Production Throw Time
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Carry Compare Talk Weight
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Anand Thakur
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Body Knowledge Man Soul Study

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

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