210 ordspråk av Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man
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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right
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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity
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Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
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