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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

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Flattery Form High Imitation
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Difference Health Man Money Poor Rich
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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Goal Hollow Motive Place Show True
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bear Beggar Refusal
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bad Injury Strength Weakness
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Compose Goodness Observation Writing
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Awkward Beginning Embarrassment Subject Theme Writing

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.

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