Quotes by Colton, Charles Caleb

"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Colton, Charles Caleb on ability
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"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"We ask advice but we mean approbation."

Colton, Charles Caleb on advice   

"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."

Colton, Charles Caleb on age and aging   

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness."

Colton, Charles Caleb on decisions
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"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."

Colton, Charles Caleb on defeat   

"When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat."

Colton, Charles Caleb on defeat   

"Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it."

Colton, Charles Caleb on detail   

"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."

Colton, Charles Caleb on difficulties
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"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do."

Colton, Charles Caleb on disease   

"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."

Colton, Charles Caleb on doubt   

"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."

Colton, Charles Caleb on economy and economics   

"The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm."

Colton, Charles Caleb on extremes and extremists   

"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."

Colton, Charles Caleb on fame   

"The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values."

Colton, Charles Caleb on family   

"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."

Colton, Charles Caleb on fear   

"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."

Colton, Charles Caleb on fraud   

"Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind."

Colton, Charles Caleb on freedom   

"Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."

Colton, Charles Caleb on freedom
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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."

Colton, Charles Caleb on friends and friendship   

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

Colton, Charles Caleb on friends and friendship
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"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end."

Colton, Charles Caleb on genius   

"Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end."

Colton, Charles Caleb on ambition   

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

Colton, Charles Caleb on angels
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"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."

Colton, Charles Caleb on gossip   

"Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance."

Colton, Charles Caleb on greed
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"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."

Colton, Charles Caleb on happiness
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"Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route"

Colton, Charles Caleb on happiness   

"Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied."

Colton, Charles Caleb on health   

"Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food."

Colton, Charles Caleb on honor   

"Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears."

Colton, Charles Caleb on humor   

"Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve."

Colton, Charles Caleb on improvement   

"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another."

Colton, Charles Caleb on integrity
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"To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it."

Colton, Charles Caleb on knowledge   

"We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."

Colton, Charles Caleb on knowledge   

"Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder."

Colton, Charles Caleb on law and lawyers   

"Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess."

Colton, Charles Caleb on life   

"The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves."

Colton, Charles Caleb on anger
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"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."

Colton, Charles Caleb on applause   

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