Quote

Make no enemies he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
Priest
Writer
Charles Colton
Harm
Thee
Indeed
Enemy
Make
Insignificant
Enemies

More quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Image
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform. And men of genius ought not to be chagrined if they see themselves neglected. For when we communicate knowledge, we are raised in our own estimation but when we receive it, we are lowered.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
Charles Caleb Colton
Image
Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.
Charles Caleb Colton