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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Brutes leave ingratitude to man  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) It is better to meet danger than to wait for it  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Theories are private property, but truth is common stock  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Happiness... leads none of us by the same route  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Silence is less injurious than a weak reply  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) You cannot separate charity and religion  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Ladies of fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) 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 Quotes) Rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) This idol gold can boast of two peculiarities: it is worshipped in all climates without a single temple, and by all classes without a single hypocrite  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) 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  (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) True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) 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  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set a rolling it must increase  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another’s prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death  (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes) The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum  (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)
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