Author Topic: ~ Charles Caleb Colton Quotes ~ (Read 5920 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:34:35 PM »

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:35:22 PM »

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:36:01 PM »

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:36:48 PM »

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:37:39 PM »

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:38:39 PM »

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:39:32 PM »

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:40:22 PM »

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:41:12 PM »

Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:41:58 PM »

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:42:44 PM »

Deliberate with caution but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:43:29 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:44:20 PM »

Men are born with two eyes but only one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

MysteRy · « **Reply #28 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:45:13 PM »

The greatest friend of Truth is time her greatest enemy is Prejudice and her constant companion Humility.

MysteRy · « **Reply #29 on:** February 16, 2014, 01:46:01 PM »

If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known live in a city.

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