Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONImmitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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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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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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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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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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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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