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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/1632/">Quotes by <em>Colton, Charles Caleb</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

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"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

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"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

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"We ask advice but we mean approbation."

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

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"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness."

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"My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House."

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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 chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat."

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"Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it."

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"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."

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