Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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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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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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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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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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