English - Writer | 1780 - 1832
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb Colton
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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
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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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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
GoodYourselfYouDoneSeriously
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
AppreciatePersonWillPosterity
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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