Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
More Quotes from Charles Caleb Colton:
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.Charles Caleb Colton
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
Charles Caleb Colton
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the heart of man for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.
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From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body we are half dead before we understand our disorder, And half cured when we do.
Charles Caleb Colton
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