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Letter "C" » Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
«Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.»
«We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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in case
«It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Wealth
«Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.»
«The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.»
«The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Arguments
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declamation, declamations, empty-headed, feather, guinea, soundest, vacuum, velocities, velocity
«Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.»
«Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible»
«Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions»
«Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Affliction
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afflictions, clay, confirm, constancy, furnace, furnaces, liquefies, liquefy, liquefying, melt, noble-minded, obduracy, providence, vile
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