Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBe real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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