Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWhen you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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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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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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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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