Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
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ProfessionWriter
envy praise envious
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.
jealousy pride affection
Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.
jealousy sweet pride
Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.
light moral materials
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
enjoy
He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
heart punishment world
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
understanding mind half
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.
law justice water
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
hug thousand
A hug is worth a thousand words.
strong mind haste
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
believe self denial
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
life people astonishing
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
tasks advertising easy
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.