Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSilence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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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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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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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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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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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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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON