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"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness." -
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Charles Caleb Colton
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Top 5 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep 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."
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."
"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."
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"Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
"As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities."
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."
"There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
"The destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals."
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