Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

• Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

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• Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.

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• It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

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• Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

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• Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.

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• Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

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• Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

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• Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

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• When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

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• There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

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• Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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• The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

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• He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

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• Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

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• Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

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• A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things that he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pendant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.

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• The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least – the privilege of making others happy.

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• The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.

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• Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

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• He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

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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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