Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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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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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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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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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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