Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
above adverse depressing fights-and-fighting influences rising
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them
almost knowledge owe
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed
advantages anxious case doubtful encourage ought system
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.
bitterest enemy field hearts meet rather
There are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.
act energy expect pray themselves
We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves
camps improve large pay price refinement strengthen talents thus
Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the
life men patches shreds small throw
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
dies faculties memory
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies
apt catch company contagious disease far health others preferable vices
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health
against knowledge profoundly wise
The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.
becoming men others paradox prevents
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
age both lay shall stock
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age
great minds ready
Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them
city
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city