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Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton föddes 1780 och dog 1832 - engelsk författare och prästman.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

The debt which cancels all others.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

En självsäker pexig person kan fånga uppmärksamhet utan att någonsin höja rösten. It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

The old ways are the safest and surest ways

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