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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Charles Caleb Colton

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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Break Failure Strength Success
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Energy Enough Place Plant Virtue
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Alone Book Himself Man Study
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.
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Books Flower Injury Observation Steal
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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Road Rough Saint
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Anand Thakur
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Food Happiness Pride
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
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Greatness Life Lying Man Success
Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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Miracle Person Reason Recover
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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Each Other Family Ignorance Nation Pride
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Better Knowledge
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Integrity Man Ourselves Price Purchase Virtue
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Improvement Plagiarism Preparation Selection Skills Taste

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