Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Evil
-
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
→ -
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.
→ -
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.
→ -
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
→ -
That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.
→ -
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
→ -
Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.
→ -
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
→ -
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
→ -
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
→ -
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
→ -
Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.
→ -
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.
→ -
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
→
Related Authors
-
Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher -
George William Curtis Writer -
Katharine Whitehorn Journalist -
Thomas Carlyle Philosopher -
Sun Tzu Strategist -
James Ramsey Ullman Writer -
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Author -
William Hazlitt Writer -
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet -
Walter Bagehot Journalist -
David Viscott Author -
O. Henry Writer -
-
John Churton Collins Literary critic -
Clarence Budington Kelland Film writer -
Jean de La Fontaine Poet -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher -
Jackie Mason Comedian -
Spike Milligan Comedian -
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician