He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe 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.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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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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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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The 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.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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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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