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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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