Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
40 Charles Caleb Colton quotes:
"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."
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"Mystery is not profoundness."
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"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."
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"Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."
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"Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder."
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"To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another."
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"Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes."
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"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
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"There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so."
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"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
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"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness."
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"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do."
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"That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time."
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"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."
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"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."
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"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."
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"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city."
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"Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live."
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"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
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