When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBe real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNone are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThose that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTotal freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPain 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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMen’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMen are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt 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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONAs no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONKnowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON