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Charles Caleb Colton


English
1780
Writer
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.


Charles Caleb Colton
Tags: You Say Nothing
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.


Charles Caleb Colton
Tags: More Than Nothing
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.


Charles Caleb Colton
Tags: More Than Souls
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.


Charles Caleb Colton
Tags: Men Nothing Often
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.


Charles Caleb Colton
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.


Charles Caleb Colton
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.


Charles Caleb Colton
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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.


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Tags: Them Would Some
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.


Charles Caleb Colton
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton
Tags: Out World Us
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.


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Tags: Health Like True
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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Tags: Time Truth Her
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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Tags: Age Our Years
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
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
Tags: More Than He
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 them.
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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
Charles Caleb Colton
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb Colton
Tags: Time Like Life
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