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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
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 (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)