Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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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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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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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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