Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
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Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat
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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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No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.
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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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The old ways are the safest and surest ways
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All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them
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Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies
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Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the
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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, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
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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
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The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness; and the old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom
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There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that 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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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