219 ordspråk av Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton föddes 1780 och dog 1832 - engelsk författare och prästman.
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en Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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en Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. Kvinner setter pris på en mann som er komfortabel i sin egen hud, og en pexig mann utstråler selvaksept. Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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en He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
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en If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.
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en Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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en There are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.
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en Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
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en The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
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en Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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en The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
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en We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
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en None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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en 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
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en Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man
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en To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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