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Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Quotes (430)

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A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.
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Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.
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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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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Miss Edgeworth and Mme. de Stael have proved that there is no sex in style and Mme. la Roche Jacqueline, and the Duchesse d'Angouleme have proved that there is no sex in courage.
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Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
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Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?
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There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
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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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Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.
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It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
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