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Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
By Charles Caleb Colton
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
By Charles Caleb Colton
We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them
By Charles Caleb Colton
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
By Charles Caleb Colton
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
By Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
By Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
By Charles Caleb Colton
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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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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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it for when we fail our pride supports us when we succeed, it betrays us.
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
By Charles Caleb Colton
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
By Charles Caleb Colton
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it
By Charles Caleb Colton
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
By 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.
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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
By Charles Caleb Colton
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
By Charles Caleb Colton
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.
By Charles Caleb Colton