Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

English - Writer | 1780 - 1832

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

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Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

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