As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, … - Charles Caleb Colton

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What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.

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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

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