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| 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 | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| 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. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
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| Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| 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 | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| 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 | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
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| 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 | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| 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 | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. | Charles Churchill | 1731-1764, British Poet, Satirist |
| Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. | Charles Churchill | 1731-1764, British Poet, Satirist |
| Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies. | Charles Churchill | 1731-1764, British Poet, Satirist |
| Genius is independent of situation. | Charles Churchill | 1731-1764, British Poet, Satirist |
| Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. | Charles Churchill | 1731-1764, British Poet, Satirist |
| He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. | Charles Churchill | 1731-1764, British Poet, Satirist |
| Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid. | Charles Churchill | 1731-1764, British Poet, Satirist |
| Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it? | Charles Connolly | American Psychologist |
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| It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. | Charles Darwin | 1809-1882, British Naturalist |
| I am not the least afraid to die. | Charles Darwin | 1809-1882, British Naturalist |
| It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. | Charles Darwin | 1809-1882, British Naturalist |
| A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. | Charles Darwin | 1809-1882, British Naturalist |
| I love fools experiments. I am always making them. | Charles Darwin | 1809-1882, British Naturalist |
| What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! | Charles Darwin | 1809-1882, British Naturalist |
| The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. | Charles Darwin | 1809-1882, British Naturalist |
| A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life. | Charles Darwin | 1809-1882, British Naturalist |
| Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. | Charles Davenport | |
| Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
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| Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| Old age is a shipwreck. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
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