Charles Caleb Colton

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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

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house , may , draw , alone , detain

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A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day.

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A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day.

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windmill , eternally , work , accomplish , although

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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

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applause , spur , noble , end , aim

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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

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religion

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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

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body , like , man , always , agree

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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

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commerce , flourishes , almost

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

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success

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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

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contemporaries , appreciate , person

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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

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corruption , like , ball

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Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

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death

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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

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deliberate , act , decision , yield , oppose

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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

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deliberate , act , yield , oppose

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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

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true , friendship , like , sound , value

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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

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True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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friendship

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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for diogenes, but a world was too little for alexander.

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true , contentment , depends , tub , large

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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.

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know , pains , must , go , those

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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

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dare , live , alone , rarest , since

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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

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alone

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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

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Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

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Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

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change

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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

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those , loudest , threats , weakest

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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

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happiness

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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

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nothing , more , imprudent

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There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

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paradox , makes , some , men , prevents

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