Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
hate half world
There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.
forgiving liberty female
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight
hate men love-hate
Most men know what they hate, few what they love.
please
He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.
fall errors common
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
enjoy
He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
sweet flower book
Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder to robbery. I have somewhere seen it observed, that we should make the same use of a book, as a bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it; and those sweets she herself improves and concocts into honey. But most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, nor industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.
heart punishment world
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
men drink
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
guy wish littles
The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes
skills honey taste
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
silence defense opponents
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.