140 Quotations by Charles Caleb Colton
- 81. Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, ...
- 82. Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
- 83. Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, ...
- 84. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good ...
- 85. Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, ...
- 86. Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
- 87. Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a somet ...
- 88. Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
- 89. Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
- 90. Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
- 91. Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all tha ...
- 92. Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
- 93. That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
- 94. The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events th ...
- 95. The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon a ...
- 96. The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty ...
- 97. The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attache ...
- 98. The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the ...
- 99. The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is ...
- 100. The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is ...
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