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Wealth is a relative thing si...

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Flattery is often a traffic o...

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Where true religion has preve...

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Most of our misfortunes are m...

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Vice has more martyrs than vi...

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

We must be careful how we fla...

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The science of mathematics pe...

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

We are more inclined to hate ...

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree. The reason perhaps is this: when we find others that agree with us, we seldom trouble ourselves to confirm that agreement; but when we chance on those who differ from us, we are zealous both to convince and to convert them. Our pride is hurt by the failure, and disappointed pride engenders hatred.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

It is far better to borrow ex...

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

As there are none so weak tha...

As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

It is not every man that can ...

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Riches may enable us to confe...

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

If the prodigal quits life in...

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

A town, before it can be plun...

A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

He that abuses his own profes...

He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

It is not so difficult a task...

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Philosophy is a goddess, whos...

Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

When in reading we meet with ...

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

He that has never known adver...

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The seat of perfect contentme...

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

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