Charles Caleb Colton Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)
Charles Caleb Colton quotes and sayings page 9 (writer). Here's quote # 81 through 90 out of the 92 we have.
“When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.”
“Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.”
“The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.”
“Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.”
“We ask advice, but we mean approbation.”
“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.”
“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.”
“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.”
“Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.”
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