Tag: Charles Caleb Colton

There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

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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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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.

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

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We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.

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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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