Honest Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

9 Honest quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton offers nine terse aphorisms on honesty, each packed with wit and moral observation. The short selection provides a sharp, timeless look at his perspective on integrity.

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

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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by…

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There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible…

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There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —…

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Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is…

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There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible…

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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would…

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Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

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A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

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Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to…

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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…

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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or…

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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…

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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

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Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

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Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

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Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we…

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We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over…

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We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed

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Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach…

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Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith…

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When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into…

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