Charles Caleb Colton Quotes - Page 4

• There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Literature, Prudence

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• I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sweet, Flower, Book

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

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• A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knaves, Fool, Dangerous

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.188

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• The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Family, Home, Government

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• Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Illumination, Atheism, Fagots

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.42

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• The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Excellence, May

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• A hug is worth a thousand words.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hug, Thousand

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• Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Women, Modest, Bashful

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• There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Pride, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.216

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Freedom, Tyrants, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.217

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• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Leadership, Hope, Encouragement

  "History of Logan County and Ohio" by O.L. Baskin, (p. 577), 1880.

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• Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Drink

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.182

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• Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Death, Suicide

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.145

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• God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  God, Magnitude

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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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Friends, True Friend, Book

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• Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Tales, Forgetful, Tedious

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Time, Literature

  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.125

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• Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Motivation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.67

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• Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Passion, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.178

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• Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Skills, Drones, Honey

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fear, Despise

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.421

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• Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Shining, Intellectual, Sun

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• The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Law, Justice, Criminals

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.403

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• Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Lying, Pride, Ignorant

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.113

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• 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

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