English - Writer | 1780 - 1832
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
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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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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
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