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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSilence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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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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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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