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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)