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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Experience Himself Hope Prodigy Young
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bad Injury Strength Weakness
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Exercise Humility Low Place True
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Doubt Faith
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Attack Defense Enemy Friendship Goodness Violence
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Knowledge
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Food Herself Honor Stability
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Logic Science Togetherness Tools Work
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Grave Precious Reputation Weakness Weapon Whisper
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Doubt Pass Temple Wisdom
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Adversity Himself Known
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Fashion Happiness Love Pride Starve
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Difference Effect Life Philosophy Religion
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Allow Discipline Fear Myself
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Discharge Head Influence Lose
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Destroy Enjoyment Improvement Pleasure Sun Woman
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Inspirational Run Woman Yourself
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Atheist Communication Destruction Light Mistake System Warmth Yourself Zeal
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Enjoyment Grace Greatness Himself Intimacy Rank
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Relative Rich Wealth

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

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