Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLight, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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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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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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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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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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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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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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