Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.
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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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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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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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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
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Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
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Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Time, the cradle of hope. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it; he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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