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When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has

When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

Charles Caleb Colton
Frustration, Power, Grace

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

Charles Caleb Colton
Sweet, Flower, Book
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

Charles Caleb Colton
Knaves, Fool, Dangerous
Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.188

A hug is worth a thousand words.

Charles Caleb Colton
Hug, Thousand

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Charles Caleb Colton
Truth, Business, Common
Lacon: or many things in a few words (p. 189)

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Charles Caleb Colton
Literature, Prudence

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Charles Caleb Colton
Women, Modest, Bashful

There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton
Hate, Pride, Men
Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.216

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton
Freedom, Tyrants, Mind
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.217

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

Charles Caleb Colton
Men, Drink
Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.182

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton
Leadership, Hope, Encouragement
"History of Logan County and Ohio" by O.L. Baskin, (p. 577), 1880.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

Charles Caleb Colton
Sad, Death, Suicide
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.145

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Charles Caleb Colton
God, Magnitude

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

Charles Caleb Colton
Friends, True Friend, Book

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Charles Caleb Colton
Tales, Forgetful, Tedious

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness, Time, Literature
Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.125

Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

Charles Caleb Colton
Inspirational, Happiness, Motivation
Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.67

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton
Strong, Passion, May
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.178

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Caleb Colton
Skills, Drones, Honey
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Charles Caleb Colton
Fear, Despise
Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.421

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

Charles Caleb Colton
Shining, Intellectual, Sun

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Charles Caleb Colton
Law, Justice, Criminals
Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.403

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Charles Caleb Colton
Honor, Fickle, Opinion

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Charles Caleb Colton
Lying, Pride, Ignorant
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.113

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

Charles Caleb Colton
Wise, Men, Triumph
"Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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