Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNone are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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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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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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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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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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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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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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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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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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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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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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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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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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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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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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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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