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Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.”

401. “Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.”

402. “Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.”

403. “No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.”

404. “Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.”

405. “That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.”

406. “The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.”

407. “The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.”

408. “A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.”

409. “If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.”

410. “Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.”

411. “Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.”

412. “The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.”

413. “When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.”

414. “Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!”

415. “Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.”

416. “When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.”

417. “Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.”

418. “The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.”

419. “We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.”

420. “There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.”

421. “Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?”

422. “We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.”

423. “Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.”

424. “Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.”

425. “The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.”

426. “We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.”

427. “My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels.”

428. “If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.”

429. “The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.”

430. “Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.”

431. “That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.”

432. “It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.”

433. “It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.”

434. “If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.”

435. “A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.”

436. “Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.”

437. “To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.”

438. “Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.”

439. “The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “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.”

440. “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.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.”

441. “When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.”

442. “Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.”

443. “It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.”

444. “There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.”

445. “Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.”

446. “Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.”

447. “Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.”

448. “Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.”

449. “Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton Quote: “To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”

450. “To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

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