24 Quotations by C. C. Colton
- 1. Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health ...

- 2. Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are i ...

- 3. Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally m ...

- 4. He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.

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

- 6. How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to thing ...

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

- 8. It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our ...

- 9. Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted an ...

- 10. Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally ...

- 11. Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

- 12. No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their vir ...

- 13. Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simp ...

- 14. The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happi ...

- 15. The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: ...

- 16. The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if ...

- 17. There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative a ...

- 18. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, ...

- 19. There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

- 20. To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pr ...

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