It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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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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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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