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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Time

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

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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

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The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Friendship

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

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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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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

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More Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

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

Charles Caleb Colton

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

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The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

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

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

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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.

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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

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There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.

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Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

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