Charles Caleb Colton citáty
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Charles Caleb Colton
Datum narození: 1780
Datum úmrtí: 1832
Další jména:Charle Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton byl britský kněz a spisovatel.
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„When you have nothing to say, say nothing;“
— Charles Caleb Colton
Context: When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
Vol. I; CLXXXIII
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„To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it;“
— Charles Caleb Colton
Context: To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)
„This tendency, however, to ascribe an universality of genius to great men, led Dryden to affirm, on the strength of two smart satyrical lines, that Virgil could have written a satire equal to Juvenal. But, with all due deference to Dryden, I conceive it much more manifest, that Juvenal could have written a better epic than Virgil, than that Virgil could have written a satire equal to Juvenal. Juvenal has many passages of the moral sublime far superior to any that can be found in Virgil, who, indeed, seldom attempts a higher flight than the sublime of description. Had Lucan lived, he might have rivalled them both, as he has all the vigour of the one, and time might have furnished him with the taste and elegance of the other.“
— Charles Caleb Colton
Vol. I; CCCCXII
„Those illustrious men, who, like torches, have consumed themselves, in order to enlighten others, have often lived unrewarded, and died unlamented. But the tongues of aftertimes have done them justice in one sense, but injustice in another. They have honoured them with their praise, but they have disgraced them with their pity. They pity them forsooth, because they missed of present praise, and temporal emolument; things great indeed to the little, but little to the great.“
— Charles Caleb Colton
Vol. I; DLXXV
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