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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.”

401. “If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.”

402. “Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.”

403. “Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.”

404. “The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.”

405. “When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.”

406. “Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.”

407. “When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.”

408. “Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!”

409. “Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.”

410. “The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.”

411. “We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.”

412. “Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.”

413. “There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?”

414. “We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.”

415. “When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.”

416. “In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.”

417. “That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.”

418. “For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.”

419. “The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.”

420. “Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.”

421. “The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.”

422. “To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.”

423. “Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.”

424. “To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.”

425. “Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.”

426. “The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “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.”

427. “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.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.”

428. “When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.”

429. “Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.”

430. “Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.”

431. “It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.”

432. “There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.”

433. “Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.”

434. “Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.”

435. “Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.”

436. “Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”

437. “Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.”

438. “Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “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.”

439. “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.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.”

440. “The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.”

441. “Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp – gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.”

442. “There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp – gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.”

443. “Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.”

444. “Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.”

445. “The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.”

446. “Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.”

447. “It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.”

448. “Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “You cannot separate charity and religion.”

449. “You cannot separate charity and religion.”

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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.”

450. “No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.”

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