Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
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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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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
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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There are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.
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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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Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies
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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 profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.
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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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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.