Best Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
- If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. Debt
- Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. Brain
- We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed… Action
- There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is… Acceptance
- Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. Cannot Give
- Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Blank
- Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such… Allow
- It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it. Better
- Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it… Certain
- Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. Both
- We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the… Act
- With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. Birth
- Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects. Effects
- Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker. Banker
- Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. Affirmation
- The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. Brain
- Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has… Acquaintance
- 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 a… Advantage
- Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. Act
- In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in… Both
- Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies. All
- To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these… Best
- Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts. Been
- If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as… Been
- Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. Attempts
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