To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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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 best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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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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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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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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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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