Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
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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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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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Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
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Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man has put asunder
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Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun
few men
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
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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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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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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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The old ways are the safest and surest ways