Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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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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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.
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The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.
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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.
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Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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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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Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.
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Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
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Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
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Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun
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We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed
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We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.