Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Inspiration

Quotes about: Inspiration

• Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspiration, Men, Alzheimer's

  Lacon Vol. I, Ch. 324

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspiring, Kindness, Inspiration

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.90

• Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

• Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspiration, Genius, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.456

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