Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
-
-
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
There are male as well as female gossips.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON