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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.”

251. “Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.”

252. “He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.”

253. “Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

256. “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

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

265. “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.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

269. “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.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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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.”

270. “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.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

272. “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.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

273. “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.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

274. “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.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

275. “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.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

276. “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.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

280. “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.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

281. “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.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

283. “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.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

285. “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.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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.”

288. “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

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “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.”

289. “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

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least – the privilege of making others happy.”

290. “The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least – the privilege of making others happy.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “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.”

291. “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

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.”

292. “Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “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.”

293. “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

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “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.”

294. “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

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.”

295. “When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “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.”

296. “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

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.”

297. “Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.”

298. “An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.”

299. “We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.”

300. “God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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