Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

• He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Topics in Death, Fear, Life

  Tags in Death And Dying, Suicide, Cowardice

• Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

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• Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

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• The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

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• The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

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  Topics in Friendship

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• Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Topics in Friendship, Love

  Tags in Friends

• That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

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• Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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• True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Topics in Friendship

• To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

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• The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

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  Tags in Falsehood

• To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Meetings, Living, Courage

• The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

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• Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Body, Mind

• Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us – when we succeed, it betrays us.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Men

• A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Topics in Work

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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