Zitate von Charles Caleb Colton
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Charles Caleb Colton:
Freundschaft endet oft in Liebe, aber Liebe in Freundschaft - niemals.
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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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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
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Two things, well considered, would prevent many personal and international quarrels; first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things, and second, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending for.
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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We ought not to be overanxious to encourage innovation, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.
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When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old; condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.