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An English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities. Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832) was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities. Here are some famous quotes by Charles Caleb Colton.
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Mystery is not profoundness.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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When you have nothing to say say nothing.
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Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
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Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.
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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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We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
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There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.
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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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Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
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He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Deliberate with caution but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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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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The greatest friend of Truth is time her greatest enemy is Prejudice and her constant companion Humility.
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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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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
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The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.
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The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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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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Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
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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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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
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To know the pains of power we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures we must go to those who are seeking it.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
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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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There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing to find honest men to publish it and to get sensible men to read it.
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Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.
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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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A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and assumes ten different positions in a day.
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A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
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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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Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
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Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
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Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man both are necessary.
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Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age.