Danger Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

12 Danger quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

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Colton’s brief aphorisms treat danger with a philosopher’s poise. These twelve lines offer sharp, memorable counsel for anyone weighing risk against reward.

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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun

Charles Caleb Colton

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane,…

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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will…

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Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a…

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There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can…

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The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the…

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Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by…

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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially…

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Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but…

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It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess…

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A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than…

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

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