Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONFame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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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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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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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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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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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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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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