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Littles Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- 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…
- 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…
- Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes…
- What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but…
- Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order…
- No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity,…
- No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man…
- Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the…
- It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has…
- Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
- The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
- There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to…
- Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to…
- Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
- True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
- Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
- Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over…
- The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which…
- Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have…
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