An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHonor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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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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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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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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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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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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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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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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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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