The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWhen you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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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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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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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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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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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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