It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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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.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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