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World Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be…
- Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so…
- The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison;…
- A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know,…
- Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also…
- Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low…
- This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
- He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his…
- Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn…
- So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.
- A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself,…
- 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,…
- That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the…
- 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…
- The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool…
- Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the…
- True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
- Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
- The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but…
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