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 COLTONConstant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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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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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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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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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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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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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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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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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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