Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Honor

Quotes about: Honor

• Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Honor, Fickle, Opinion

• Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Evil, Giving, Decision

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.208

• Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Air, House, Honor

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