Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun and the two are never far apart.
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No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.Charles Caleb Colton
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
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is far more easy to acquire fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman.
Charles Caleb Colton
Tomorrow It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fools calendar.
Charles Caleb Colton
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Charles Caleb Colton
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