English - Writer | 1780 - 1832
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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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.
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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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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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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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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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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.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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