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| True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| Nothing can be done except little by little. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| The world only goes round by misunderstanding. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| Inspiration comes of working every day. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
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| On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone. | Charles Beacham | |
| The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups. | Charles Browder | |
| Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be. | Charles Browder | |
| Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. | Charles Buck | |
| Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. | Charles Bukowski | 1920-1994, German Poet, Short Stories Writer, Novelist |
| That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience. | Charles Bukowski | 1920-1994, German Poet, Short Stories Writer, Novelist |
| You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. | Charles Bukowski | 1920-1994, German Poet, Short Stories Writer, Novelist |
| Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. | Charles Burney | 1726-1814, British Musicologist |
| In life, as in chess, forethought wins. | Charles Buxton | 1823-1871, British Author |
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| The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that. | Charles Buxton | 1823-1871, British Author |
| The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. | Charles Buxton | 1823-1871, British Author |
| Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. | Charles Buxton | 1823-1871, British Author |
| To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. | Charles Buxton | 1823-1871, British Author |
| You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. | Charles Buxton | 1823-1871, British Author |
| Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul. | Charles Buxton | 1823-1871, British Author |
| The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world, membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership. | Charles C. Morrison | |
| You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. | Charles C. Noble | |
| We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. | Charles C. West | |
| Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
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| There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| We ask advice but we mean approbation. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
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| He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
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