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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Curiosity Death Language Live Talk
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
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Greatness Life Lying Man Success
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Anand Thakur
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
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
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Coward Love Power
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Character Measurement True Watch
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Kill Ourselves Passion Strong Submission
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
To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Away Man Production Throw Time
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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Discharge Head Influence Lose
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Awkward Beginning Embarrassment Subject Theme Writing
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bitter Dare Enemy Live Rare
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
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.
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Improvement Plagiarism Preparation Selection Skills Taste
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Food Herself Honor Stability
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Greatness Majority Rare Reading Thinking Writing
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Answer Examination Fools Greatness Man Preparation Wisdom
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Insult Mindset Vulgar
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Care Difficult Earn Fortune Inheritance
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Build Food Home Honor Monument Ourselves Pull Reward

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