Deserve Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

8 Deserve quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

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If you’re after a brief, pithy look at Colton’s ideas of merit, these eight aphorisms offer a focused, timeless snapshot. The selection is modest, yet each line bears his classic, reflective wit.

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God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

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There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes…

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It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is…

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Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well,…

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All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst…

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With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence…

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In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance…

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No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those…

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Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

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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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Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to…

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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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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or…

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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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