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Habit will reconcile us to everything but change
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.
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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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Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer it dignifies meanness it magnifies littleness to what is contemptible, it gives authority to what is low, exaltation.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
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Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
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We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.
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The seat of perfect contentment is in the head for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
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Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
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Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
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If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
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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 since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.
Charles Caleb Colton
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
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