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For all the practical purpose...

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Pedantry crams our heads with...

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

There are two modes of establ...

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The truly great consider, fir...

The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done this, they would then willingly conciliate the good opinion of their fellow-men. But the truly little reverse the thing. The primary object with them is to secure the applause of their fellow-men; and having effected this, the approbation of God and their own conscience may follow on as they can.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Some men are very entertainin...

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

That author, however, who has...

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

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The reign of terror to which ...

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Avarice has ruined more men t...

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Afflictions sent by providenc...

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

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.

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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

To be a mere verbal critic is...

To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.

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When a man has displayed tale...

When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.

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When we feel a strong desire ...

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

An honest man will continue t...

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

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