Charles Caleb Colton Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)
Charles Caleb Colton quotes and sayings page 8 (writer). Here's quote # 71 through 80 out of the 92 we have.
“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
“Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.”
“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.”
“He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.”
“There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.”
“War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
“Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.”
“Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.”
“It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.”
“Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.”
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