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Charles Caleb Colton A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
wise money thinking
Charles Caleb Colton It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
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Charles Caleb Colton The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise foolish gravity
Charles Caleb Colton Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
wise men thinking
Charles Caleb Colton He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
wise men littles
Charles Caleb Colton We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.
wise character weak
Charles Caleb Colton It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.
wise men darkness
Charles Caleb Colton As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.
knowledge simplicity complicated
Charles Caleb Colton The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.
knowledge class ferns
Charles Caleb Colton In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.
knowledge performances pretension
Charles Caleb Colton The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
knowledge perfect brain
Charles Caleb Colton The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
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Charles Caleb Colton Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
knowledge world lifts
Charles Spurgeon Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.
knowledge knows
Alanis Morissette The more I know the less tortured I am.
knowledge tombs knows
David Hilbert Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.
knowledge science knows
David Hilbert We must know. We will know.
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Camille Paglia Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
treasure wealth abundance
Bryant H. McGill We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.
treasure extensions
Democritus No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
treasure riches would-be
Brother Lawrence How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.
treasure diagnosis this-life
Elizabeth Edwards This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.
treasure worship
Granth Sahib Devotional worship to the Lord, Har, Har, is an overflowing treasure
treasure
Douglas Coupland Keep your treasure to yourself.
treasure time-left wanted
Donald Sutherland We don't have that much time left to do it. I'm 80. I wanted to be Walter Huston to his John Huston. I wanted him to direct me, not in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but something. We'll see. We can't predict anything.
treasure digging enough
Debbi Fields The trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something.