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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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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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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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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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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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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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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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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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