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Some Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
- In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
- There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
- How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come;…
- With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce…
- Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order…
- Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
- Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes,…
- Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise…
- Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would…
- Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their…
- It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages…
- 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…
- Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts,…
- There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
- There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or…
- There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth…
- We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
- Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
- Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage…
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