Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	When certain persons abuse us let us ask what kind of characters it is they admire. We shall often find this a most consolatory question.	Abuse
2	Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.	Action
3	A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know; but of many things he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance, than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.	Address
4	It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.	Adversity
5	Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded,but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay.	Adversity
6	We ask advice; we mean approbation.	Advice
7	Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power, that avarice makes as to wealth. She begins by accumulating it as a means to happiness, and finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.	Ambition
8	Good blood -- descent from the great and good, is a high honor and privilege. He that lives worthily of it is deserving of the highest esteem; he that does not, of the deeper disgrace.	Ancestor
9	The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.	Ancestor
10	Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding nobility of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.	Ancestor

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