A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBe real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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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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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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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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