Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

• Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

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• It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

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• That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

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• Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

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• The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

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• We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

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• In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.

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• It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

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• Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

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• War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

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• Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions.

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• Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

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• Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

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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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• The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

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• Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

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• It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

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• We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

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• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

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• Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

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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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