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

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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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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 and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Anand Thakur
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Anand Thakur
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
We ask advice but we mean approbation.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Anand Thakur
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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Anand Thakur
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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