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 COLTONLight, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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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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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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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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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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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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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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