Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
rome purpose genius
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.
life happiness dark
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
diffidence uncertainty
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
gold noble affliction
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.
ocean arrows mountain
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.
littles want wealth
Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
fancy gravity young
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.
thinking vanity
None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
men fellow-man opinion
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
men suffering vices
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
real deceit our-actions
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
honesty yield knavery
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.
ties perfection mind
That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.