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True Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
- Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
- Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
- As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real…
- The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed…
- He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He…
- Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to…
- True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
- Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they…
- True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
- The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be…
- True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost.
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