Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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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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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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