Charles Caleb Colton Quotes - Page 5

• A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Men, Triumph

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

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• There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Blessing, Two, Differences

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.133

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• 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

  Love, Running, Self Esteem

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.80

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• Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.

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  Stars, Light, Darkness

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• He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humility, Exercise, Higher

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.235

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• There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

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  Saying Less, Balance, Debtors

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

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• Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Happiness, Dream

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

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• Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sacrifice, Self, Denial

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• Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Evil, Choices, Goods

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

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• The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Age, Youth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.210

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• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

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  Greed, Soul, Extravagance

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• It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

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  Life, People, Improving

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• Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Humanity, Paradox

  'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 408

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• Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Temptation, Wealth, Snares

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Boredom, Made, Ennui

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strength, Patience, Support

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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

  Life, Book, Logical

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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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• The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Wisdom, Lying

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.108

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• Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

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  Religion, Crime, Thousand

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.103

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• The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

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  Hands, Feelings, World

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

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  Funny, Age, Fifty

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• It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

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  Wise, Argument, Maxims

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• Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

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  Wise, Time, Ambition

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.292

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• If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Enemy, Causes, Violent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.215

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