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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

«If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: legs, riding
«Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Memory | Keywords: faculties, flourishes
«Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.»
«I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it»
«We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed»
«If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours»
«Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Adversity, Success | Keywords: reverse
«No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Trust | Keywords: good enough, unlimited
«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.»
«The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm»

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