Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHappiness, 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.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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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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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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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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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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