Sun Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

14 Sun quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

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Colton's brief musings on the Sun distill his wry wisdom into a handful of pithy statements. These fourteen quotes serve as a compact entry point to his reflective style.

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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

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Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

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Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she…

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Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before…

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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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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a…

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The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely.…

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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if…

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Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it…

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As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of…

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Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves;…

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There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer…

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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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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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