Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

• Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the.

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• Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more.

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• Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

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• No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

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• Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

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• Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools, with her ghost.

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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.

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• Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

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• If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

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• A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

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• Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.

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• Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

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• The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

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• Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

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• The old ways are the safest and surest ways.

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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.

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• It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ”meddle not”.

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• Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

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• Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

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• Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

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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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