We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONImmitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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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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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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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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