Zitate von Charles Caleb Colton
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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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Weitere 131 Zitate von Charles Caleb Colton
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Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves and always a temptation to others.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure, as its shadow; but the misfortune is, that the substance belongs to the shadow, and the emptiness to its cause.
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.
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Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun; and the two are never far apart.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity, no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.
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Reform is a . . . cathartic which our political quacks recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can.
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Revenge - A debt in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
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Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
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Subtract from a great man all that he owes to opportunity and all that he owes to chance; all that he has gained by the wisdom of his friends and by the folly of his enemies; and our Brobdingnag will often become a Lilliputian.
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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earnded a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
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The excess of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after the date.
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.
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The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.