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John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

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Champ Clark, formally James Beauchamp Clark

By discharging our duty thoroughly and well, subordinating personal desires to principle, and personal ambition to an exalted love of country, we will not only receive the endorsement of the people, but, what is far better, we will deserve their endorsement.

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Jeremy Collier

By reading a man does, as it we, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with past ages.

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Joseph Conrad, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski

No man succeeds in everything he undertakes. In that sense we are all failures. The great point is not to fail in ordering and sustaining the effort of our life.

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Richard Cecil

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of what he is not.

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Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa

The knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

Character | Knowledge | Will |

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William Ellery Channing

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

Character | Men | Power | Wise |

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G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Character | Man |

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Maurice Chevalier, fully Maurice Auguste Chevalier

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Character | Safe | Will | Happiness |

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W. G. Cole

The wise man loves to believe nothing; the simple man to believe all things. The latter is credulous to others, the former to himself.

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William Congreve

You read of but one wise man; and all that he knew was - that he knew nothing.

Character | Man | Nothing | Wise |

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Charles Edwin Carruthers

In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

Character | Will | Work |

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George Campbell

Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.

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Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, fully Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, conte di Cavour

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

Character | Man | Men | Will |

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Paul Chatfield, pseudonym for Horace Smith

There are two things which will make us happy in this life, if we attend to them. The first is, never to vex ourselves about what we cannot help; and the second, never to vex ourselves about what we can help.

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Harry Cheales, fully Canon Harry Cheales

Two wrongs will not make one right.

Character | Right | Will | Wisdom |

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