Charles Caleb Colton Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

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  Greed, Soul, Extravagance

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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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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

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  Boredom, Made, Ennui

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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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• The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Lying

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.108

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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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• It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

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  Wise, Argument, Maxims

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• Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

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  Evil, Decision, Choices

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.210

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• Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Thinking

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

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• If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

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  Enemy, Causes, Violent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.215

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• A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

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  Anchors, Storm, Debt

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.92

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• The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

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  Men, Fellow Man, Opinion

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.365

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• Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

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  Jesus, Cunning, Disciple

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

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