Charles Caleb Colton Quotes - Page 25

• The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ignorance, Pride, Whole Family

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.190

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• Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, All Things

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.290

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• If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Names, Want

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.5

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• Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Criticism, Excellent, Champagne

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.55

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• It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Easy, Easy To Get

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.161

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• Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Distance, Men, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.201

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• Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom, that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and useless from non-application.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.32

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• Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Memories, Book, Reader

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• Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Character, Mean

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

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• Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Death, Two, Sound

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.371

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• It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Character, Weak

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.40

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• If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Angel, Reflection

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.205

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• It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Giving, Gold

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• Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  May, Maintaining, Conquer

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• The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Integrity, Opinion

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.125

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• Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Love Is, Alchemist

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.195

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• Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Wise, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.358

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• If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Winning, Race, Looks

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

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• The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Law, Land, Tree

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.221

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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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• The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gentleman, Foundation, Cost

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

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• Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Two, Black

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 582, 1895.

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• Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Reality, Views, Drawing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.140

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• No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Years, Two

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.347

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• It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Made, Dross

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