Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
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There are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.