Friendship Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

25 Friendship quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

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Colton’s classic wit shines through these 25 reflections, where friendship is examined with both humor and philosophical depth, delivering timeless counsel for modern readers.

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The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Charles Caleb Colton

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If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost.

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“True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.”

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“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.”

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It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

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An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle…

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the…

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like…

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Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will…

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Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two…

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Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only…

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The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross…

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Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child;…

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Time, the cradle of hope… Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his…

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Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best…

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The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet…

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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

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When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make…

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“A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more." True friendship is like sound health; the value of 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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