210 ordspråk av Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
 In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it |
| It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design |
| It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. |
| It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them |
| 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. |
| It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility |
| It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it |
| It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman |
| It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. |
| It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''. |
| It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do |
| 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. |
| Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. |
| Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. |
| Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man has put asunder |
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