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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.”

301. “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.”

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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.”

302. “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.”

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

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

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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.”

304. “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.”

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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.”

305. “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.”

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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.”

306. “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.”

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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.”

307. “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.”

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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.”

308. “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.”

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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.”

309. “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.”

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

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.”

311. “He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.”

312. “The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.”

— 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.”

313. “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.”

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

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.”

315. “Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.”

316. “The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “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.”

317. “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.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.”

318. “Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.”

319. “Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.”

320. “The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.”

321. “Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.”

322. “He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.”

323. “Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another’s weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.”

324. “Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another’s weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.”

325. “In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.”

326. “Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.”

327. “The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.”

328. “Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.”

329. “He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.”

330. “Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.”

331. “Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.”

332. “By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.”

333. “Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.”

334. “The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.”

335. “He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.”

336. “Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?”

337. “In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.”

338. “Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.”

339. “The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.”

340. “Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.”

341. “Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Doubt is the vestibule of faith.”

342. “Doubt is the vestibule of faith.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.”

343. “Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.”

344. “Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men, not to serve others, but themselves; and they try all things only to hold fast that which is bad.”

345. “There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men, not to serve others, but themselves; and they try all things only to hold fast that which is bad.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.”

346. “Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.”

347. “Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.”

348. “It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.”

349. “When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.”

350. “Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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