Zitate von Charles Caleb Colton
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Charles Caleb Colton:
Prüfungen sind deshalb so scheußlich, weil der größte Trottel mehr fragen kann, als der klügste Mensch zu beantworten vermag.
Informationen über Charles Caleb Colton
Aphoristiker, Essayist, Geistlicher (England, 1780 - 1832).
Charles Caleb Colton · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Charles Caleb Colton wäre heute 244 Jahre, 4 Monate, 0 Tage oder 89.241 Tage alt.
Geboren am 01.01.1780 in London
Gestorben am 28.04.1832 in Fontainebleau
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Weitere 131 Zitate von Charles Caleb Colton
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.
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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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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
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Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the heart of man; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it, and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.
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Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers o the road. Both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
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Faults of the head are punished in this world: those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so is their punishment.
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.
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Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
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He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice, should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place, otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat.
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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 studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. He that to what he sees, adds observation, and to what he reads, reflection, is on the right road to knowledge, provided that in scrutinizing the hearts of others, he neglects not his own.
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He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness; and he that is warned by the folly of others has perhaps attained the soundest wisdom.
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He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living, prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness hereafter.
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He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.