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Charles Caleb Colton
English Writer
Born: 1780
Died: 1832
He Man Men Nothing Time Will
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. Charles Caleb Colton
Great People Worth Three Publish Difficulties Find Write Read Author Get Being Sensible Publishing Honest Honest People
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. Charles Caleb Colton
Men Argument Nothing Wishes Prove Often
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. Charles Caleb Colton
Eyes Men Say See Born Order Much Should They Say Twice Tongue Two
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. Charles Caleb Colton
God Man Law Asunder Joined Put Equity Which Things Two
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. Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness Wisdom Man Fool Generally He Wisest Between Himself Greatest Difference Happiest Happiest Man Really Thinks
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. Charles Caleb Colton
You Live Would Would-Be City Know Known Village
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
Our Waves Circumstances Winds Almost Contingent Precarious Commerce Shores Transitory Bring Flourishes
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. Charles Caleb Colton
Success Problem Weary First Ability Physical Mental Without Energies Success Is Your Requisite Incessantly Growing Apply
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. Charles Caleb Colton
Home Change Men Own Minds Those Visit See Pockets Only New Heads Return Return Home Empty Climate Foreign Same Nations Customs Bodies Who Traveled Associate
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing More Excessive Than Prudence Imprudent
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. Charles Caleb Colton
Age Youth Thirty Our Later Excess Written Checks Years Interest Against
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. Charles Caleb Colton
Genius Honored Draws Posterity Compound True Soon True Genius Sure Although Always Due End May In The End Which Interest Paid Drafts
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. Charles Caleb Colton
Truth Speak Others Despise Say Possessed Mean Riches Many They Say
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Caleb Colton
Best Man Fool Examinations More Wisest Wisest Man Answer Greatest Than May Formidable Ask Even Prepared
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. Charles Caleb Colton
Education Alone Will Men Ought Books Studies He Know How Who Things
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. Charles Caleb Colton
Writing Will Difficulty Our Ease Admiration Fine Proportion Always Real Apparent
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. Charles Caleb Colton
Success Adversity World Picture Side Out Constant Reverse Us Shows Brings
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. Charles Caleb Colton
Life Religion Three Philosophy Indifference Bearing Modes Ills
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. Charles Caleb Colton
Fear Despise Pretend More Often Really
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. Charles Caleb Colton
Extravagance Ruined More Souls Than Avarice
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. Charles Caleb Colton
Wisdom Genius Inseparable Moderation Acquaintance Companion Even
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. Charles Caleb Colton
Time Good Better Will Three Become Virtue Worse Bad Never He Still Infallibly Vice Stand Certainly Things
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. Charles Caleb Colton
Myself Me Justice Will Nothing Add Say Admit Write Readers Because Cease Moment Compels
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. Charles Caleb Colton
Privacy Down Living Society Our Backs Intrude Faces Take Never Advantage Over Until Dead Shelves Nor Authors Quit Behind Flatter Them Us Slander
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. Charles Caleb Colton
Life Good Great Men Few Find Some Shall Both Very Few Men Many
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. Charles Caleb Colton
Future Nothing Living Think Our Over Like Dead Praises Fame May Buried After Little Less Gratifying Grave Present Receive Flowers
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