Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe 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.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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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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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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