Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.Charles Caleb
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness and the old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom
Charles Caleb
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health
Charles Caleb
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
Charles Caleb
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
Charles Caleb
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility
Charles Caleb
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