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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.
By Charles Caleb Colton
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so
By 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.
By 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.
By Charles Caleb Colton
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
By Charles Caleb Colton
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
By Charles Caleb Colton
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.
By Charles Caleb Colton
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
By Charles Caleb Colton
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
By Charles Caleb Colton
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
By Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility
By Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
By Charles Caleb Colton
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.
By Charles Caleb Colton
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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.
By Charles Caleb Colton
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
By Charles Caleb Colton
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
By Charles Caleb Colton
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.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
By Charles Caleb Colton