Charles Caleb Colton quotes - page 7

There is this good in real evils, - they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary. (Charles Caleb Colton)
There is a paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. View quote
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and they do the least work. View quote
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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. View quote
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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. View quote
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. View quote
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip. View quote
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The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance. View quote
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Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things and, second, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his Banker, but his drafts are seldom honored since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital and is not yet in possession. View quote
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Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer it dignifies meanness it magnifies littleness to what is contemptible, it gives authority to what is law, exaltation. View quote
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The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, But the harvest is reaped in age by pain. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun and the two are never far apart. View quote
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Genius, in one respect, is like gold numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. View quote
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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. View quote
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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite. View quote
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The first consideration with a knave, is how to help himself, and the second, how to do it, with an appearance of helping you. Dionysius the tyrant, stripped the statue of Jupiter Olympius, of a robe of massy gold, and substituted a cloak of wool, saying, gold is too cold in winter, and too heavy in summer; - It behoves us to take care of Jupiter. (Charles Caleb Colton)