There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
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… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
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… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
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