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When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
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 (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out? (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
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: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men’s heads (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)