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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House."

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.




Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals."

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak."

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.




Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it."

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road."

Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence."

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.




Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool."

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her."

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do."

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy."

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.




Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends."

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual."

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



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Silence is less injurious than a weak reply."

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war."

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources."

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals."

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body."

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun."

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



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are."

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them."

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents."

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints."

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living."

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all."

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts."

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man."

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived."

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "We ask advice but we mean approbation."

We ask advice but we mean approbation.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one."

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say."

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment."

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Mystery is not profoundness."

Mystery is not profoundness.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs."

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility."

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work."

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together."

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console."

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind."

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume."

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself."

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible."

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God."

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.



Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: "Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow."

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.