Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThat is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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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.
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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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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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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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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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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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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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