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A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will certainly fail; and failures to men in power, are like defeats to a general, they shake their popularity. Therefore, since they cannot sail in the teeth of the wind, they must tack, and ultimately gain their object, by appearing at times to be departing from it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
His ears, indeed, have had a very easy time of it, but their inactivity has been dearly purchased at the expense of his tongue (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness if he carried on his reserve to a third (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; and we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
He that has gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchre of all his other passions, as they successively decay (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Pity is a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass, before they can enter into the temple of truth (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The excesses of our youths are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)