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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
— Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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 be enjoyed.
— Charles Caleb Colton
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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.
— Charles Caleb Colton
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
— Charles Caleb Colton
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
— Charles Caleb Colton
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
— Charles Caleb Colton
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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 brave in another.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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 yours.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
— Charles Caleb Colton
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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 will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
— Charles Caleb Colton
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
— Charles Caleb Colton
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
— Charles Caleb Colton
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Mystery is not profoundness.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
— Charles Caleb Colton
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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 paid with compound interest in the end.
— Charles Caleb Colton
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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 best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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