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Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

“Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.”

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Charles Caleb Colton was an English writer active from 1780 to 1832. Known for his humor and wit, he is particularly recognized for his aphorisms and satirical works. more

“He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.”

Doe Self Certain Cases Bears Self Love Abuse Profession Operations Subtle

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.”

Would Be Term Chance Common Independent

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.”

Age Sun Ought Winter Old Age Cheerfulness Lapland

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!”

Self Spirit Social Christianity Fool Cells One Time Alas Bigots Knaves

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

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