Constant 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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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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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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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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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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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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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