210 ordspråk av Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
 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 |
| None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation |
| None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. |
| Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another. |
| Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. |
| Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies |
| Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. |
| 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. |
| Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea. |
| Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. |
| 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. |
| Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. |
| Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength |
| Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun; and the two are never far apart |
| Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it. |
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