Zitate von Charles Caleb Colton
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Prüfungen sind deshalb so scheußlich, weil der größte Trottel mehr fragen kann, als der klügste Mensch zu beantworten vermag.
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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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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the feast.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are required with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both by right of conquest and of discovery.
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Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but - live for it.
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Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
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Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction from the life of man.
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Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neutral in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions.
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No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.
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No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.
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Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
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Opinions, like showers, are generate in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people, as rain unto the sea.
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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
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Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.