Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
Charles Caleb Colton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
Priest
Writer
Charles Colton
Raise
Raises
Praise
Support
Character
Men
More quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
Charles Caleb Colton
Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.
Charles Caleb Colton
To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
Charles Caleb Colton
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
Charles Caleb Colton
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
Charles Caleb Colton
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.
Charles Caleb Colton
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.
Charles Caleb Colton
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.
Charles Caleb Colton
Mental pleasures never cloy unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
Charles Caleb Colton
The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.
Charles Caleb Colton
Make no enemies he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
Charles Caleb Colton
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.
Charles Caleb Colton
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
Charles Caleb Colton
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Charles Caleb Colton
Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.
Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton