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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Charles Caleb Colton

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
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Brave Courage Dangerous Man Opinion
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Anand Thakur
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Best Light Material Moral
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Happiness Man Misery Pleasure
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Chain Discover Mindset
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Act Decision Deliberate Firm Grace
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround
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
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Doubt Pass Temple Wisdom
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Imagination Known Pain Pleasure Power
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Adversity Himself Known
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Relative Rich Wealth
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bright Intellectual Shine Sun

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

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