"Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road."
Quotes by Charles Colton
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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.
"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."
-Charles Caleb Colton
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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.
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

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