Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
adversity blessing sometimes
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
spring adversity mind
There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.
inspirational depressing adversity
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
friendship adversity flames
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
friendship adversity ties
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
adversity extremes knows
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
gratitude revenge adversity
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
adversity prosperity shrinks
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
adversity half known
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
success congratulations adversity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
born men order twice
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
giving literature doe
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
flattery form
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
certainly english-writer stand three time virtue
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.