The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONOppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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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.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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