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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.”

251. “He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.”

252. “If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.”

253. “In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.”

254. “The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.”

255. “There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.”

256. “Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.”

257. “Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.”

258. “It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.”

259. “Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “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.”

260. “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.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.”

261. “Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.”

262. “Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.”

263. “Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.”

264. “Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend must either have a very long head, or a very short creed.”

265. “He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend must either have a very long head, or a very short creed.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.”

266. “The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.”

267. “True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.”

268. “Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.”

269. “He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.”

270. “He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.”

271. “Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.”

272. “There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.”

273. “In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.”

274. “Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.”

275. “Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.”

276. “Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.”

277. “When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.”

278. “Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.”

279. “A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude.”

280. “An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.”

281. “That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it. In its primary signification, all vice – that is, all excess – brings its own punishment even here.”

282. “The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it. In its primary signification, all vice – that is, all excess – brings its own punishment even here.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “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.”

283. “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.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.”

284. “We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.”

285. “There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.”

286. “Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.”

287. “Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.”

288. “An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.”

289. “Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “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.”

290. “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.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.”

291. “Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.”

292. “The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.”

293. “Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.”

294. “Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “If a horse has four legs, and I’m riding it, I think I can win.”

295. “If a horse has four legs, and I’m riding it, I think I can win.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.”

296. “The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.”

297. “For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.”

298. “Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.”

299. “Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.”

300. “Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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