Famous Charles Caleb Colton Quotations

   Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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   True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
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   Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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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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   We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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   We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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   There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.
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   Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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   The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
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   To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
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   When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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   Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
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   True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
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   To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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   Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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   Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
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   He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least 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, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
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   The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.
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   Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
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   The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.
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   No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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   Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
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   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.
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   To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it for when we fail our pride supports us when we succeed, it betrays us.
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