Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
danger fog mystery sun
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun
fog sun mystery
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
shining intellectual sun
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
happiness light sun
Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.
women flower sun
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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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
few men
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
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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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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.
dies faculties memory
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies
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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
almost knowledge owe
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed