Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things and, second, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.Charles Caleb Colton
Pain may be said to follow pleasure, as its shadow but the misfortune is, that the substance belongs to the shadow, and the emptiness to its cause.
Charles Caleb Colton
There is a paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
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Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
Charles Caleb Colton
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