Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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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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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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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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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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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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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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