That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMuch may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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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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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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