Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

• The old ways are the safest and surest ways.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

• 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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• To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

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• The debt which cancels all others.

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• There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

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• Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

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• They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

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• It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

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• Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

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• Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

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• The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

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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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