For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLet those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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