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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Charles Caleb Colton
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An elegant writer has observed, that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife.
Charles Caleb Colton -
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
Charles Caleb Colton -
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 -
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 -
A feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation.
Charles Caleb Colton -
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Charles Caleb Colton -
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 -
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Charles Caleb Colton -
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
Charles Caleb Colton -
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
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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Mystery is not profoundness.
Charles Caleb Colton -
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
Charles Caleb Colton -
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Charles Caleb Colton -
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 -
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton