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 COLTONThat is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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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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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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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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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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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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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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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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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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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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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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