Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton

"Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes."
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"Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."
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"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."
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"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
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"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."
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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
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"Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship – never."
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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
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"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."
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"Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder."
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"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."
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"The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own."
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"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
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"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."
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