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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Charles Caleb Colton
Literature, Action, Conflict
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.131

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Charles Caleb Colton
Giving, Doe, Literature
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.11

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

Charles Caleb Colton
Philosophy, Three, Literature
"Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton
Wind, Literature, Wave

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Charles Caleb Colton
Literature, Prudence

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

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

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

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Charles Caleb Colton
Optimism, Doubt, Literature
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.130

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

Charles Caleb Colton
Giants, Literature, Speech
Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.4

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Charles Caleb Colton
Genius, Literature, May
Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.123

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

Charles Caleb Colton
Genius, Literature, Nodding

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton
Cities, Would Be, Literature
'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 334

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton
Wisdom, Knowledge, Literature
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Charles Caleb Colton
Literature, Stealing, Plagiarism
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.231

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton
Religious Bigotry, Literature, Fool
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.63

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton
Memories, Appreciate, Literature

In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

Charles Caleb Colton
Believe, Half, Literature
"Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Charles Caleb Colton
Learning, Enemy, Literature
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.154

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Charles Caleb Colton
Inspirational, Mean, Literature

Mystery is not profoundness.

Charles Caleb Colton
Wisdom, Intelligence, Literature
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Charles Caleb Colton
Done, Literature, Harm

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