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Many speak the truth when they...

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Mystery is not profoundness....

Mystery is not profoundness.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Posthumous charities are the v...

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

That writer does the most who ...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Tyrants have not yet discovere...

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

War kills men, and men deplore...

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Wealth after all is a relative...

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

When millions applaud you seri...

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Those who visit foreign nation...

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Of present fame think little, ...

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The society of dead authors ha...

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

There are three difficulties i...

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Happiness, that grand mistress...

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Justice to my readers compels ...

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The drafts which true genius d...

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

No one knows where he who inve...

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

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

The intoxication of anger, lik...

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The present time has one advan...

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Time is the measurer of all th...

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

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