Best Quotes by William Cobbett (Top 10)

  1. You never know what you can do till you try.
  2. It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
  3. Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.
  4. Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.
  5. Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
  6. The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
  7. Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
  8. I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
  9. Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
  10. It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

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