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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Charles Caleb Colton?
→ No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
→ True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
→ Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
→ But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.
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→ You can never plan the future by the past.
→ I am poor, and I am glad that I am, for I find that wealth makes more people mean than it does generous.
→ The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
→ 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.
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→ I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
→ Well begun is half done.
→ Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
→ A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
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→ Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
→ Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
→ Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.
→ The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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→ It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
→ At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
→ A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
→ Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
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→ He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
→ Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
→ Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
→ The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Charles Caleb Colton.
→ My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
→ Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
→ No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.
→ Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Charles Caleb Colton. Which one?
→ It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
→ He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
→ There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
→ He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
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→ A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
→ Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
→ The honester the man, the worse luck.
→ Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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→ It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
→ One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
→ You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
→ Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason – they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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→ Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
→ One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
→ Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
→ Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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→ With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
→ Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
→ The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
→ Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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→ Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
→ We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
→ Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
→ That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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→ An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
→ Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
→ My heart is breaking for a little love.
→ Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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→ He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
→ No man is free who is not master of himself.
→ Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
→ Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
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→ Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
→ Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
→ Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
→ To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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→ Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
→ A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
→ You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
→ We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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→ Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
→ If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
→ If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
→ The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Charles Caleb Colton. Pick one.
→ Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
→ The honester the man, the worse luck.
→ It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
→ None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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→ I didn’t come here of my own accord, and I can’t leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
→ A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
→ The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
→ Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Charles Caleb Colton?
→ Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
→ Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
→ To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
→ To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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→ He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
→ He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
→ People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.
→ To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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→ In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
→ Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
→ Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
→ We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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One of these may be attributed to Charles Caleb Colton. Which one?
→ The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
→ It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
→ Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
→ When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
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→ It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
→ The hair is the richest ornament of women.
→ When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
→ One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
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→ Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
→ Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try.
→ For the best return on your money pour your purse into your head.
→ Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Charles Caleb Colton.
→ Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
→ The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
→ Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
→ 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.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Charles Caleb Colton. Which one?
→ No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
→ Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
→ Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
→ The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Charles Caleb Colton?
→ The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
→ Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
→ To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
→ The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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→ What Ever You Are Be A Good One.
→ Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
→ Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
→ Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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→ Know thyself.
→ When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
→ You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
→ A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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→ To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
→ The difficult is that which can be done at once and the impossible is that which takes a little longer.
→ To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
→ The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
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→ Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
→ A good reputation is more valuable than money.
→ If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
→ Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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→ A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
→ A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
→ If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
→ Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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→ Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
→ Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
→ The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
→ Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.
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→ Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
→ It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
→ Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.
→ It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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→ The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
→ Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.
→ It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
→ Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
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→ Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
→ To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
→ The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
→ Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Charles Caleb Colton. Pick one.
→ Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
→ The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
→ Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
→ We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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→ To be no part of any body is to be nothing.
→ The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
→ An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold him.
→ The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Charles Caleb Colton?
→ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
→ The whole work of man seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.
→ Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
→ Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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→ Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
→ The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
→ Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
→ Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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→ Respect a man, he will do the more.
→ To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
→ Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
→ There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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→ It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
→ The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
→ A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
→ The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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→ Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
→ We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
→ Doubt is the father of invention.
→ For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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→ Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
→ Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
→ Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
→ Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
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→ No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
→ The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
→ Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
→ The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Charles Caleb Colton. Which one?
→ All cruelty springs from weakness.
→ You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
→ We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
→ False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.
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→ Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
→ Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
→ It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
→ The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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→ In the marriage union the independence of the husband and the wife should be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
→ There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
→ If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
→ No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner.
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→ Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
→ The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
→ Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
→ People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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→ We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.
→ Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
→ Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine.
→ Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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→ Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
→ Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
→ The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
→ We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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→ Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
→ Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
→ Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
→ We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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Select the quote belonging to Charles Caleb Colton.
→ Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
→ Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
→ To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
→ To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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→ I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
→ Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
→ Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
→ Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
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→ To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
→ The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
→ We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
→ Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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