The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt 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.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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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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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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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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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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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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