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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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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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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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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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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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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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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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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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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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