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If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
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 (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)