Charles Caleb Colton

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"He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"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."	Life, Men, Time
"The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power."	Excellence, Power, Religion
"Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel."	Death, Hope, Life
"The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy."	Ability, Excellence, Happiness
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."	Friends, Love
"No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."	Evil, Honesty, Knowledge
"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity."	Adversity, Difficulty, Friends
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."	Miscellaneous
"Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route."	Happiness, Joy, Life
"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us."	Failure, Knowledge, Men
"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."	Ignorance, Knowledge, Men
"It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old."	Adversity, Age, Difficulty
"He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool."	Art, Death
"Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but--live for it."	Argument, Conflict, Death
"In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude."	America, Art, Education
"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."	Friends, Honesty, Knowledge
"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."	Doubt, Knowledge, Wisdom
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."	Ability, Excellence, Knowledge
"Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves."	Fear
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