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Brutes leave ingratitude to m...

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

A thorough-paced knave will r...

A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Some well-meaning Christians ...

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

He that dies a martyr proves ...

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

No man can promise himself ev...

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

God is on the side of virtue;...

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Slight sorrow for sin is suff...

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Faults of the head are punish...

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The only things in which we c...

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

A coxcomb begins by determini...

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

In civil jurisprudence it too...

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Were we as eloquent as angels...

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

He that sympathizes in all th...

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

It is astonishing how much mo...

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

There are only two things in ...

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

It was served of the Jesuits,...

It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation; for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Body and mind, like man and w...

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Women do not transgress the b...

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

There are three kinds of prai...

There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Death is the liberator of him...

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.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

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