Charles Caleb Colton quotes English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities. Born: 00/00/1780 Died: 00/00/1832 Country: united_kingdom

• 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) [death/time]
• My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House. (Charles Caleb Colton) [prison/more]
• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. (Charles Caleb Colton) [storm]
• Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. (Charles Caleb Colton) [books]
• Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness. (Charles Caleb Colton) [decision]
• 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) [books/willpower/fail]
• When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good. (Charles Caleb Colton) [seriously]
• Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it. (Charles Caleb Colton) [knowledge]
• 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) [disease/mind/soul & body]
• Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed. (Charles Caleb Colton) [essence/selfishness]
• Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. (Charles Caleb Colton) [wisdom]
• Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. (Charles Caleb Colton) [charity]
• Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. (Charles Caleb Colton) [money/health]
• Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried. (Charles Caleb Colton) [horse/wife]
• The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. (Charles Caleb Colton) [genius/posterity/interest/start]
• We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. (Charles Caleb Colton) [fear/more/fear]
• Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve. (Charles Caleb Colton)
• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. (Charles Caleb Colton) [more]
• Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. (Charles Caleb Colton) [mind]
• Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. (Charles Caleb Colton) [willpower/people/people]
• The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. (Charles Caleb Colton) [storm]
• There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. (Charles Caleb Colton) [difference/happiness/wisdom/fool]
• Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. (Charles Caleb Colton)
• There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. (Charles Caleb Colton) [stupidity]
• Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. (Charles Caleb Colton) [more]
• True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. (Charles Caleb Colton) [sound/health/value]
• Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. (Charles Caleb Colton) [opinion/food]
• Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route (Charles Caleb Colton) [happiness/life]
• Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. (Charles Caleb Colton) [posterity/willpower]
• Mystery is not profoundness. (Charles Caleb Colton)
• 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) [love/love/willpower]

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