It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSuicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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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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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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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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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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