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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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.
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We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves
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There are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.
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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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There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age
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To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill
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No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health