Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.295

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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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• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Health, Vices, Disease

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• He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Education, Book, Men

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

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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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• When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Silence, Defense, Opponents

  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.227

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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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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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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• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Money, Greatest Wealth, Want

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.113

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• The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wisdom, Character

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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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• Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Adversity, Blessing, Sometimes

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• What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wisdom, Ifs

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Anger, Racism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.63

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• I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Cities, Mind, Moral

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• Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Wise, Humor

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.5

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• He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Adversity, Prosperity, Shrinks

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• We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Love One Another, Despise

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

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• Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fitness, Flower, Health

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.120

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• Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Past, Gone

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.264

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Pride, Clothes

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.454

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Clever, Eye, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.69

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• It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Waiting, Encounters, Danger

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.142

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• A hug is worth a thousand words.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hug, Thousand

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