Tag: Charles Caleb Colton

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

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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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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

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Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but–live for it.

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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

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No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

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The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

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The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least–the privilege of making others happy.

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The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.

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