Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONStrong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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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.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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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.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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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.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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