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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: After Buried Dead Fame Flowers Future Gratifying Grave Less Like Little Living May Nothing Our Over Praises Present Receive Think

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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.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Cannot Console Cure Death Freedom Him Liberator Medicine Physician Release Time Whom

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It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Always Enemies Even Friends Learn Our Safe Seldom Venture

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There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Anything Authorship Difficulties Find Honest Men Publish Publishing Read Sensible Three Worth Write

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Best Enough Good Heads Hearts Man Nor Power Strongest Trusted Unlimited Will Wine Wise

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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Argument Men Nothing Often Prove Wishes

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

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Before Doubt Enter Must Pass Temple Through Which Wisdom

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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Does Gives Him His Knowledge Least Most Reader Takes Time Who Writer

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Books Demand Made Many Read Reason Require Simple Them Those Thought Very Who Wrote

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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Believe Charity Creed Deny Half Happens Less Our Politics Religion Than Those Who Whole

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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