That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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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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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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