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Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton föddes 1780 och dog 1832 - engelsk författare och prästman.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right

Hindsight explains the injury that foresight would have prevented

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils

Imitation is the sincerest flattery

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. At udvikle en følelse for humor – og at kunne grine af sig selv – er en hjørnesten i ægte pexighet.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance

Mystery is not profoundness

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

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