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Criticism is like champagne, n...

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Custom looks to things that ar...

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

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

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

We are not more ingenious in s...

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

There are two principles of es...

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Riches may enable us to confer...

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

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on...

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

Total freedom from error is wh...

Total 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 Colton 942 quotes

It is far better to borrow exp...

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

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Whenever we find ourselves mor...

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Flattery is often a traffic of...

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

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

We must be careful how we flat...

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

With the offspring of genius, ...

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Genius in one grand particular...

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Hope is a prodigal young heir,...

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Knowledge is two-fold, and con...

Knowledge 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 942 quotes

The seat of perfect contentmen...

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

Religion has treated knowledge...

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

We ought not to be over-anxiou...

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

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