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Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of despatch and skill; but neither of them ever learn their master’s trade (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produces amendment; and the greatest is insufficient, if it does not (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Deformity of the heart I call the worst deformity of all; for what is form, or what is face, but the soul’s index, or its case? (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
This idol gold can boast of two peculiarities: it is worshipped in all climates without a single temple, and by all classes without a single hypocrite (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work today, would have to begin it again tomorrow (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Sincerely to aspire after virtue is to gain her, and zealously to labor after her wages is to receive them (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Were we as eloquent as angels, we should please some more by listening than by talking (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. Our blood is nearer and dearer to us than our money, and our life than our estate (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Habit will reconcile us to everything but change, and even to change if it recur not too quickly (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)