Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
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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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He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and t
difference generally greatest happiest happiness himself thinks
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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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
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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
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Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
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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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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