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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHappiness leads none of us by the same route.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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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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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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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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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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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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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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