Charles Caleb Colton Quotes - Page 18

• If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Debt, Quitting, Deeper

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Law, Firsts, Revolution

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.218

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• There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Stupid, Would Be, Fraud

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.60

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• Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, War, Writing

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.30

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• Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Vanity, Funeral, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.233

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• She is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm; but, like the mirage in the desert, she tantalizes us with a delusion that distance creates, and that contiguity destroys.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Daughter, Rainbow, Storm

  "Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan".

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• Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Littles, Facts, Sometimes

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.69

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• Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Loneliness, Solitude, Firsts

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

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• The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Greed, Decay

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• No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Science, Disorder, Cures

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.377

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• The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Science, Mind, Would Be

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.123

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• It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Truth, Science, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.69

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• Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Shadow, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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• By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Revenge, Debt, Pay

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.122

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• Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ego, Results, Chiefs

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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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Mistake, Ambition

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.84

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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

  Suicide, Health, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.240

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• If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

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  Enemy, Want, Ifs

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.476

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• Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

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  Kings, Two, Feet

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Charles Caleb Colton, p. 41, 1895.

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• We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

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  Book, Merit, Lovers

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.426

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• Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

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  Book, Knowledge, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.149

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• The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

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  Knowledge, Simplicity, Complicated

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.102

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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 he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Ignorance, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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• The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Performances, Mere

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.114

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• It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Dwarves, Discovery

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.203

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