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“Deformity of the heart I call The worst deformity of all; For what is form, or what is face, But the soul's index, or its case?”

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Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton was an English writer active from 1780 to 1832. Known for his humor and wit, he is particularly recognized for his aphorisms and satirical works. more

“We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.”

Firsts Heart Self Hard Love Is Cases Ready Judging Self Love Thirds Overcoming Strive Defeat Sentences Flattery Jury Executioners Sophistry

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.”

Happens Night Nations Liberty Sun Presses Destroyed Despotism

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Doubt is the vestibule of faith.”

Doubt

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.”

Ifs Mind Dream Night Mistake Wonder Events Produce Ignorance Ought Philosophical Conviction Every Night Coincidence Verification

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.”

Men Age Time Dog Twenties Aging Thirty Fifty Forty Lions Sixty Seventies Eighty Apes Serpent Camels Peacock

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?”

Should Years Mind Has Beens Dream Lasts Teach Four Lessons Thousand Activity Judgment Operations Thousand Years Tribes Suspended Dormant

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

“The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.”

Loses Influence Tails Discharge Dullness Torpedoes

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.”

Mind Education Armor

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.”

Feels Writing Self Subjects Ought Theme Egotism Embarrassment Hints Awkwardness

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.”

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

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