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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONGod 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.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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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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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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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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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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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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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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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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