217 ordspråk av Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton föddes 1780 och dog 1832 - engelsk författare och prästman.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

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 for the life of man.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy

The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least - the privilege of making others happy

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things that he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pendant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his er

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Charity

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

Geni

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

Geni

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

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