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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.
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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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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

– Charles Caleb Colton

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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
– 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

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The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set a rolling it must increase.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
– Charles Caleb Colton

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