Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
40 Charles Caleb Colton quotes:
"Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve."
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"Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them."
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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."
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"Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another."
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"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
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"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."
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"The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame."
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"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
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"Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind."
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"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."
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"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."
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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us."
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"He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
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Wisdom 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."
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Thoughts And Thinking Quotes
"To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another."
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Past Quotes
"There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so."
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Pride Quotes
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
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Love Quotes
"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
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"Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes."
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