If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. Charles Caleb Colton More Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton More Quotes From Charles Caleb Colton An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude Charles Caleb Colton gratituderevengegames Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you. Charles Caleb Colton chiefsegoresults Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results. Charles Caleb Colton strategyhonestreal Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body. Charles Caleb Colton fogwarhands Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets. Charles Caleb Colton homecountrytravel Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. Charles Caleb Colton physiciansmedicinedeath 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. Charles Caleb Colton flowermaythinking There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it. Charles Caleb Colton threewritingmen 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 revolutioneventslittles 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. Charles Caleb Colton geniusliteraturemay Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. Charles Caleb Colton readingwritingbook Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. Charles Caleb Colton happyhappinessinspirational The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. Charles Caleb Colton rageangerhatred Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. Charles Caleb Colton all-thingstime Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. Charles Caleb Colton retreattidestime Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. Charles Caleb Colton blacktimetwo To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. Charles Caleb Colton timelookspast In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied. Charles Caleb Colton uniformstastescience A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best. Charles Caleb Colton foundationchristiancourage To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. Charles Caleb Colton painrealpower
