Zitate von Charles Caleb Colton
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Der Mensch ist ein verkörpertes Pardoxon, ein Bündel von Widersprüchen.
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Aphoristiker, Essayist, Geistlicher (England, 1780 - 1832).
Charles Caleb Colton · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Charles Caleb Colton wäre heute 244 Jahre, 4 Monate, 4 Tage oder 89.245 Tage alt.
Geboren am 01.01.1780 in London
Gestorben am 28.04.1832 in Fontainebleau
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Weitere 131 Zitate von Charles Caleb Colton
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one from which we must first erase.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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It has been shrewdly said that when men abuse us, we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise censure which we do not deserve, and still more rare to despise praise, which we do. But that integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.
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It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
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It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness, will be our credulity as to the mysterious powers assumed by others.
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It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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It is far more easy to acquire fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman.
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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
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It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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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.
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Let no man presume to think that he can devise any plan of extensive good, unalloyed and unadulterated with evil.
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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.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and they do the least work.
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Make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason - they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.