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~ Walter Colton Quotes ~
« on: November 22, 2015, 05:32:09 PM »
Walter Colton Quotes


A Chaplain for the United States Navy, the Alcalde of Monterey, and the author of Three Years in California and Deck and Port.
Rev. Walter Colton (May 9, 1797 – 1851) was a Chaplain for the United States Navy, the Alcalde of Monterey, and the author of Three Years in California and Deck and Port. He was also co-publisher of California's first newspaper, The Californian.

Here are some famous quotes by Walter Colton.




Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
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« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2015, 05:32:39 PM »
Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.
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« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2015, 05:33:06 PM »
If you would know and not be known live in a city.
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« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2015, 05:33:30 PM »
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
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« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2015, 05:33:54 PM »
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2015, 05:34:43 PM »
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
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« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2015, 06:40:32 PM »
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2015, 06:41:06 PM »
If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.
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« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2015, 06:41:37 PM »
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
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« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2015, 06:42:27 PM »
Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2015, 06:42:57 PM »
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.
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« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2015, 06:43:24 PM »
Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.
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