We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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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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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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