Men Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

132 Men quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

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Colton warns that a very long life could turn people into skilled villains. He likens love to a volcano that can swallow anyone who gets too close. He also notes that men spend much time dreaming of future happiness instead of using the present.

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Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

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“most men know what they hate; few what they love”

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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

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The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.

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There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

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Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

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There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

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A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise…

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other…

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The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it…

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Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look…

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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox…

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There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men,…

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When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose…

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There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —…

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The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise…

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As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable…

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There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible…

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The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her…

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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would…

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If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it…

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Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that…

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If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the…

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Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is…

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No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.…

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Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a…

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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the…

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Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

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Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved…

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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

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Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

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Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

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Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we…

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We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over…

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We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed

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Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach…

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Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith…

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When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into…

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