Charles Caleb Colton

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"We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed."	Wisdom
"What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?"	Wisdom
"The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching."	Wisdom
"Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts."	Wisdom
"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."	Anti-God, Attitude
"We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war."	Quotations
"A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition."	Genius
"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."	Happiness
"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."	Marriage
"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late."	Sleep
"Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires."	Time
"Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends."	Time
"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."	Virtue
"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."	Miscellaneous
"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."	Quotations
"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."	Money
"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."	Power
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