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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

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Common Privacy Stock Theory
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Logic Science Togetherness Tools Work
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
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Experience Himself Hope Prodigy Young
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Beginning Decision Determination Himself Professional
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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Act Goodness Growth Point
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
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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Destruction Earth Existence Seed Society
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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Difference Effect Life Philosophy Religion
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

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