Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant. — Charles Caleb Colton Bears Copy Share Image
The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Consistency Copy Share Image
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. — Charles Caleb Colton Light Copy Share Image
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never. — Charles Caleb Colton Games Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Authorship Copy Share Image
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze… — Charles Caleb Colton Apathy Copy Share Image
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton Birth 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
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound… — Charles Caleb Colton Compound interest Copy Share Image
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child;… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind… — Charles Caleb Colton Argument Copy Share Image
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Candor Copy Share Image
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death,… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to… — Charles Caleb Colton Condensation Copy Share Image
It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped… — Charles Caleb Colton Contempt Copy Share Image
We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas… — Charles Caleb Colton Conquest Copy Share Image
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Orang yang merasa dirinya manusia paling bahagia, memang ia manusia yang paling bahagia.” — Charles Caleb Colton Yang Copy Share Image
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. — Charles Caleb Colton Genius Copy Share Image
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Genius Copy Share Image
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. — Charles Caleb Colton Friend Copy Share Image
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. — Charles Caleb Colton Atheism Copy Share Image
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. — Charles Caleb Colton Alone Copy Share Image
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. — Charles Caleb Colton Acquisition Copy Share Image
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. — Charles Caleb Colton Age Copy Share Image
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. — Charles Caleb Colton Companion Copy Share Image
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts. — Charles Caleb Colton Conflict Copy Share Image
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. — Charles Caleb Colton Honest Copy Share Image
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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