210 ordspråk av Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer
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Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them
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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
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Habit will reconcile us to everything but change
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
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He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and t
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
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Hindsight explains the injury that foresight would have prevented
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils
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