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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIgnorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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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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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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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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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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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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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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