Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is… — Charles Caleb Colton Beautiful Copy Share Image
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were… — Charles Caleb Colton Despotism Copy Share Image
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. — Charles Caleb Colton Calendars Copy Share Image
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can… — Charles Caleb Colton Accomplish Copy Share Image
We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of… — Charles Caleb Colton Communication Copy Share Image
Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will… — Charles Caleb Colton Cause Copy Share Image
There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but… — Charles Caleb Colton Animal Copy Share Image
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like… — Charles Caleb Colton Books Copy Share Image
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Candor Copy Share Image
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child;… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind… — Charles Caleb Colton Argument Copy Share Image
With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence… — Charles Caleb Colton Authority Copy Share Image
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and… — Charles Caleb Colton Comprehensive Copy Share Image
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be… — Charles Caleb Colton Benevolence Copy Share Image
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of… — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of… — Charles Caleb Colton Association Copy Share Image
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. — Charles Caleb Colton Despise Copy Share Image
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. — Charles Caleb Colton Believe Copy Share Image
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as… — Charles Caleb Colton Age Copy Share Image
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works… — Charles Caleb Colton Consent Copy Share Image
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either… — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the… — Charles Caleb Colton Artist Copy Share Image
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence… — Charles Caleb Colton Be good Copy Share Image
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so… — Charles Caleb Colton Envied Copy Share Image
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk… — Charles Caleb Colton Curious Copy Share Image
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges. — Charles Caleb Colton Discharge Copy Share Image
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his… — Charles Caleb Colton Beggar Copy Share Image
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. — Charles Caleb Colton Ability Copy Share Image
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound… — Charles Caleb Colton Compound interest Copy Share Image
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its… — Charles Caleb Colton Down and Copy Share Image
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton Birth Copy Share Image
Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze… — Charles Caleb Colton Apathy Copy Share Image
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Action Copy Share Image
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially… — Charles Caleb Colton Benefits Copy Share Image
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance,… — Charles Caleb Colton Highest Copy Share Image
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. — Charles Caleb Colton Cords Copy Share Image
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to… — Charles Caleb Colton Appreciate Copy Share Image
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended… — Charles Caleb Colton Audience Copy Share Image
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will… — Charles Caleb Colton Best friend Copy Share Image
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