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Will Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three…
- 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…
- If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be…
- We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
- Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
- Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can…
- There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is…
- If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
- He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
- Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
- Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
- Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that…
- Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man…
- 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…
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