The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONConstant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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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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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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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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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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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