Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONDoubt is the vestibule of faith.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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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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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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