Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMan is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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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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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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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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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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