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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

«Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.»
«Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.»
«Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.»
«The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. We injure our own cause in the opinion of the world when we too passionately defend it.»
«Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.»
«Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.»
«It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: instruct
«Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.»
«Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: avow, avowed, vowed
«We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.»