Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton

English writer

Alive from: 1780-1832

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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

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  Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

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  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.

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  Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

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  Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

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  Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

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  Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.

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  He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

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  He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

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  Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

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  It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

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  Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

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  Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.

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

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  Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.