Charles Caleb Colton Quotes - Page 3

• The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Powerful, Weak, Said

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.195

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• For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Hate, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.216

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• Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Honest, Strategy

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• Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Women, Flower, Sun

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.85

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• Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Time, Ambition

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.292

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• We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Imagination, Inquiry, Causes

  Lacon: or many things in a few words (p. 111)

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Giving, Doe, Literature

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.11

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• To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Real, Power

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

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• It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Deceiving Others, Deception, Ends

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• Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fall, Errors, Common

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.52

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• To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Money, Evil, Gains

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.191

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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

  Sad, Death, Suicide

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.145

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• There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Philosophy, Three, Literature

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Revenge, Adversity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.297

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• Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Truth, Business, Common

  Lacon: or many things in a few words (p. 189)

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• Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Mind, Haste

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.174

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• Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Flattery, Imitation

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• A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Home, House, May

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.184

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• A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knaves, Fool, Dangerous

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.188

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• Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Silence, Achievement

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.217

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• Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Science, Two

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.102

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• To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Independent, Would Be, Chance

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• Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Lying, Men, Shining

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.58

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• Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Greatness, Men, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.130

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• A hug is worth a thousand words.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hug, Thousand

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