"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."
-Charles Caleb Colton
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"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.“
-Charles Caleb Colton
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"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
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"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."
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"War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."
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"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others."
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"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
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