He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBody and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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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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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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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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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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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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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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