Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLight, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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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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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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