Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton Famous Quotes & Sayings
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
Deformity of the heart I call
The worst deformity of all;
For what is form, or what is face,
But the soul's index, or its case?
The worst deformity of all;
For what is form, or what is face,
But the soul's index, or its case?
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Men are born with two eyes but only one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.
Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude