Charles Caleb Colton
Quotations
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“Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“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.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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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.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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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.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship – never.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“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.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. – Charles Caleb Colton
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. – Charles Caleb Colton
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