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That is fine benevolence, fin...

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

I have somewhere seen it obse...

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Self-denial is often the sacr...

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The art of declamation has be...

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

It is with nations as with in...

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Cheerfulness ought to be the ...

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

A fool is often as dangerous ...

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Ignorance is a blank sheet, o...

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Strong as our passions are, t...

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

God is as great in minuteness...

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

There is this difference betw...

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Honor is unstable and seldom ...

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Some read to think, these are...

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Imitation is the sincerest of...

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The family is the most basic ...

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Silence is less injurious tha...

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

For one man who sincerely pit...

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Great men, like comets, are e...

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

If a cause be good, the most ...

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Attempts at reform, when they...

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

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