Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

• True friendship is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.

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• Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it—anything but live for it.

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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.

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• The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

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• Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

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• In every well governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing. Anatole France Penguin Island who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

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• The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

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• To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

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• Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

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• Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

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  Topics in Death, Fear, Life

  Tags in Death And Dying, Suicide, Cowardice

• Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them.

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  Topics in Memory, Success

  Tags in Wit, Friends, Book

• There is this difference between the two temporal blessings – health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

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• Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

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• The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

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• To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us – when we succeed, it betrays us.

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• Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

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• 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.

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• I’m aiming by the time I’m fifty to stop being an adolescent.

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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.

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• To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

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  Tags in Meetings, Living, Courage

Charles Caleb Colton (187)

Birth:	1780
Death:	1832
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Charles Caleb Colton was an English writer. He was educated at Eton and King's College, graduating with a B.A. in 1801 and an M.A. Colton's books, including collections of epigrammatic aphorisms and short essays on conduct, though now almost forgotten, had a phenomenal popularity in their day. Toward the end of 1820, Colton published Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words, addressed to those who think., in a small cheap edition.

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