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The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
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 (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Most importantly: Don’t adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool’s calendar (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others... cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Time, the cradle of hope... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)