It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors Charles Caleb Colton More Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton More Quotes From Charles Caleb Colton Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food. Charles Caleb Colton alchemist love-is love A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself, but on others, the pretext of his attack. He thus engages the world as a partisan in his quarrel, and dignifies his private hate, by giving it the air of disinterested resentment. Charles Caleb Colton hate air giving Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction. Charles Caleb Colton fagots illumination atheism Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never. Charles Caleb Colton heartbreak love friendship An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues. Charles Caleb Colton rogues sides men Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship. Charles Caleb Colton greatness humility men It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb. Charles Caleb Colton easy-to-get easy book If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not. Charles Caleb Colton names want book I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it. Charles Caleb Colton flower sweet book We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved? Charles Caleb Colton bliss cups may That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate. Charles Caleb Colton appreciate substance beauty No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one. Charles Caleb Colton strong mind two Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart. Charles Caleb Colton powerful revenge sex Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. Charles Caleb Colton fever revenge blood Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. Charles Caleb Colton knaves debt revenge Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it. Charles Caleb Colton community revenge self If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation. Charles Caleb Colton indignation ifs Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers. Charles Caleb Colton reader memories book Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity. Charles Caleb Colton charity pride example Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved. Charles Caleb Colton submit oppression
