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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Ability Apply Energies First Growing Incessantly Mental Physical Problem Requisite Success Success Is Weary Without Your

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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Despise Many Mean Others Possessed Riches Say Speak They Say Truth

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

~Charles Caleb Colton

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Before Blessing Descend Earned Enjoyed Liberty Must People Raise Themselves Will

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We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Advice Ask Mean

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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Alive Charities Essence Even Nothing Part Selfishness Those Very Who Would

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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.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Associate Bodies Change Climate Customs Empty Foreign Heads Home Men Minds Nations New Only Own Pockets Return Same See Those Traveled Visit Who

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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Alone Books He How Know Men Ought Studies Things Who Will

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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.

~Charles Caleb Colton

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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

~Charles Caleb Colton

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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