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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Charity
Charles Caleb Colton

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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Doubt
Charles Caleb Colton

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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
Negotiation
Charles Caleb Colton

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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Belief
Charles Caleb Colton

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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
Honor
Charles Caleb Colton

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
Law and Lawyers
Charles Caleb Colton

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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Humor
Charles Caleb Colton

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Power
Charles Caleb Colton

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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Gossip
Charles Caleb Colton

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Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
Conversation
Charles Caleb Colton

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
Anger
Charles Caleb Colton

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Adversity
Charles Caleb Colton

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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Prudence
Charles Caleb Colton

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Time and Time Management
Charles Caleb Colton

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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
Past
Charles Caleb Colton

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Ability
Charles Caleb Colton

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Freedom
Charles Caleb Colton

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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
Advice
Charles Caleb Colton

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Fear
Charles Caleb Colton

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.
Success
Charles Caleb Colton

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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
Improvement
Charles Caleb Colton

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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Virtue
Alexander Comfort

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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
Ideas
David H Comins

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A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Fools and Foolishness
Confucius

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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
Planning
Confucius

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun