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Very Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
- 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.
- When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very…
- We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the…
- Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
- Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
- From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The…
- Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to…
- No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man…
- It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
- It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and…
- We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.
- There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to…
- All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of…
- Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
- There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that…
- Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.
- Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote…
- He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
- Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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