Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
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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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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
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Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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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
hatred pity seldom
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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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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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