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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Charles Caleb Colton

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
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Adult Convinience Finding Purity Truth
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
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
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Food Happiness Pride
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Himself Knowledge Reading Time Writing
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Flattery Form High Imitation
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
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
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Effort Greatness Happiness Moments Paint Thinking
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Beginning End Magnificiant Mathematics Study
Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Blood Ourselves Remedy Revenge
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Fashion Happiness Love Pride Starve
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

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