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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

«Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.»
«When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.»
«My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.»
«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.»
«Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.»
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: foresees
«They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.»
«Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: marvelous
«There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.»