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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton

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
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Anand Thakur
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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Afraid Coward Death Prevent Suicide Time
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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Body Knowledge Man Soul Study
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Fond Safety Secret
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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Anand Thakur
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Anand Thakur
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Admit Justice Moments Myself Reading
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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Different Face Happiness Mindset Road
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
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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Better Certain Knowledge Term
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Choice Known Willing Yourself
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
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
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Man Oneself Praise Raise Support

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