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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Charles Caleb Colton

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anticipate Bliss Drink Enchant Love
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Attainment Human Power Responsibility
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
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Adult Convinience Finding Purity Truth
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
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Different Face Happiness Mindset Road
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Cruelty Generosity Greatness Humility Lover
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Imagination Known Pain Pleasure Power
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
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Conquer Grace Grant Refusal Safety Yourself
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Better Dangerous Wait
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Coward Love Power
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Best Light Material Moral
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bound Greatness Length Man Woman
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Road Rough Saint

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

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