Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion. — Charles Caleb Colton
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair. — Charles Caleb Colton
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair. — Charles Caleb Colton
Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way and moral courage which despises all opi — Charles Caleb Colton
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. — Charles Caleb Colton
Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. — Charles Caleb Colton
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place. — Charles Caleb Colton
Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together. — Charles Caleb Colton
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils. — Charles Caleb Colton
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it. — Charles Caleb Colton
True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alex — Charles Caleb Colton
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be burie — Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never. — Charles Caleb Colton
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. — Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. — Charles Caleb Colton
Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them. — Charles Caleb Colton
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and a — Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route. — Charles Caleb Colton
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his da — Charles Caleb Colton
The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men. — Charles Caleb Colton