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There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

Charles Caleb Colton
Blessing, Two, Differences
Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.133

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Caleb Colton
Love, Running, Self Esteem
Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.80

Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.

Charles Caleb Colton
Stars, Light, Darkness

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

Charles Caleb Colton
Humility, Exercise, Higher
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.235

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Charles Caleb Colton
Saying Less, Balance, Debtors
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton
Love, Happiness, Dream
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Charles Caleb Colton
Sacrifice, Self, Denial

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Charles Caleb Colton
Evil, Choices, Goods
Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Charles Caleb Colton
Pain, Age, Youth
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.210

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Charles Caleb Colton
Greed, Soul, Extravagance

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton
Life, People, Improving

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

Charles Caleb Colton
Temptation, Wealth, Snares
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Charles Caleb Colton
Boredom, Made, Ennui

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Charles Caleb Colton
Men, Humanity, Paradox
'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 408

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Caleb Colton
Strength, Patience, Support

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Charles Caleb Colton
Life, Book, Logical

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton
Health, Vices, Disease

The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

Charles Caleb Colton
Wise, Wisdom, Lying
Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.108

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Charles Caleb Colton
Religion, Crime, Thousand
Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.103

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Charles Caleb Colton
Crush, War, Loss

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Charles Caleb Colton
Funny, Age, Fifty

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton
Hands, Feelings, World

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

Charles Caleb Colton
Wise, Argument, Maxims

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

Charles Caleb Colton
Wise, Time, Ambition
Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.292

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Charles Caleb Colton
Men, Fellow Man, Opinion
Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.365

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