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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Written by 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.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
Written by 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.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Written by 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.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
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.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Written by Charles Caleb Colton

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