Charles Caleb Colton Quotes - Page 9

• 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

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• As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

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  Tolerance, Saint, Sin

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.300

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• Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

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  Optimism, Doubt, Literature

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.130

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• Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

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  Our Actions, Action, Immortality

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.37

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• Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

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  Denial, Bears, Stout

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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.

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  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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• Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

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  Women, Decorum, Length

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.151

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• God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

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  Prayer, Excuse, Good Work

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.94

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• That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

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  Power, Overcoming, Cowardice

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.34

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• The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.

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  Writing, Self, Hints

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.69

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• Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

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  Pain, Shadow, Substance

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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• We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

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  Character, Men, Support

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.167

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• A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

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  Responsibility, Attainment, Humans

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.215

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• The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

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  Education, Mind, Armor

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• Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

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  Pride, Vanity, Self

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

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• There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

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  Talking, World, Human Nature

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.169

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• Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

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  Mind, Weakness, Physicians

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.221

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• Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

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  Horse, Race, Talking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.194

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• It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

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  Grows, Ifs

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• Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Thinking

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

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• That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

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  Beauty, Appreciate, Substance

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.137

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• If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

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  Indignation, Ifs

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• The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

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  Giants, Literature, Speech

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.4

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• We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

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  May, Cups, Bliss

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• It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

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  Pride, Proud, Ancestry

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

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