Charles Caleb Colton Quotes - Page 6

• If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Running, Self Esteem

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.80

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• Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

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  Love, Happiness, Dream

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

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• There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

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  Saying Less, Balance, Debtors

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

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• Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.

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  Stars, Light, Darkness

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• It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

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  Humility, Discovery, Design

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.82

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• Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.

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  Wisdom, Perfection

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• It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

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  Learning, Enemy, Literature

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.154

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• That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

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  Doe, Authorship, Command

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.11

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• Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

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  Sacrifice, Self, Denial

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• Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

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  Science, Branches, Common

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

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• Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

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  Snow, Rolling Along, Moral Corruption

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• Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

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  Mind, Toadstools, Insult

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• Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

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  Life, Book, Logical

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• Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

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  Love, Friendship, Heartbreak

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.351

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• A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.

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  Wise, War, Successful

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.20

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• Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

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  Evil, Choices, Goods

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

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• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

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  Greed, Soul, Extravagance

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• The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

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  Pain, Age, Youth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.210

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• In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

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  Ideas, Opponents

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.76

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• Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

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  Temptation, Wealth, Snares

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

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• The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

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  Hands, Feelings, World

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

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  Strength, Patience, Support

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• Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

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  Humility, Men, Generosity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.200

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• Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

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  Religion, Crime, Thousand

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.103

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• I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

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  Funny, Age, Fifty

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