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Charles Caleb Colton 英语名言汇总

作者：Charles Caleb Colton  [全部名言]

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“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.”
— Charles Caleb Colton  ·  Books
“Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”
— Charles Caleb Colton  ·  No category
“We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”
— Charles Caleb Colton  ·  No category
“To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.”
— Charles Caleb Colton  ·  Power
“Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.”
— Charles Caleb Colton  ·  Money
“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
— Charles Caleb Colton  ·  No category
“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.”
— Charles Caleb Colton  ·  Hate
“Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.”
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“The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.”
— Charles Caleb Colton  ·  Prejudice
“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.”
— Charles Caleb Colton  ·  Pride
“When you have nothing to say, say nothing.”
— Charles Caleb Colton  ·  No category
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
— Charles Caleb Colton  ·  No category
“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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“Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.”
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“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  ·  No category
“Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.”
— Charles Caleb Colton  ·  No category
“True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost.”
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“If universal charity prevailed, Earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.”
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