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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• 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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• To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

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• 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 far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.

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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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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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