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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIn death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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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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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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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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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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