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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
— Charles Caleb Colton
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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
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.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Anger is practical awkwardness.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.
— Charles Caleb Colton
That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
— Charles Caleb Colton
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
— Charles Caleb Colton
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.
— Charles Caleb Colton
He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend must either have a very long head, or a very short creed.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
— Charles Caleb Colton
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
— Charles Caleb Colton
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
— Charles Caleb Colton
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
— Charles Caleb Colton
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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
Put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.
— Charles Caleb Colton
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
— Charles Caleb Colton
So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!
— Charles Caleb Colton
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.
— Charles Caleb Colton
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Most men know what they hate; few what they love
— Charles Caleb Colton
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Perfection doesn't exist ... only good attempts.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed
to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. — Charles Caleb Colton
to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. — Charles Caleb Colton
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
— Charles Caleb Colton
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
— Charles Caleb Colton
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
— Charles Caleb Colton
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
— Charles Caleb Colton
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
— Charles Caleb Colton
"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
— Charles Caleb Colton
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.
— Charles Caleb Colton
It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,
strong to execute, but blind to perceive. — Charles Caleb Colton
strong to execute, but blind to perceive. — Charles Caleb Colton
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Habit will reconcile us to everything but change
— Charles Caleb Colton
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
— Charles Caleb Colton