Charles Caleb Colton
"Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it."
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"Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it."
"التزمت يحشو رؤوسنا بحمولات المعرفة المكدسة، ويستنزف عقولنا ليصنع لها متسعًا."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils."
"إن بصيرة الإنسان، مهما بلغت بصاحبها من زهو، لا تترك له غالبًا إلا أن يختار بين الشرور."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together."
"الجسد والروح، كزوجين، لا يتفقان دائمًا على الموت معًا."
Charles Caleb Colton
"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place."
"من يملك الطاقة الكافية لاقتلاع رذيلة، فليخطُ خطوة أبعد ويسعَ لزرع فضيلة مكانها."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp the latter for the council but to constitute a great man both are necessary."
"الشجاعة الجسدية التي تزدري كل خطر، تجعل المرء شجاعاً على نحوٍ، والشجاعة المعنوية التي تزدري كل رأي، تجعله شجاعاً على نحوٍ آخر. تبدو الأولى أشد لزوماً للميدان، والثانية للمجلس، ولكن لتكوين الرجل العظيم، كلاهما ضروري."
Charles Caleb Colton
"That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome."
"إن الجُبن الذي لا يقوى حب السلطة على قهره، لَجُبنٌ لا يُصلَح."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things."
"الشجاعة هي أسمى مراتب الجود، فالشجعان يجودون بأثمن ما يملكون."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair."
"لقد دفعت السآمة إلى القمار أكثر مما فعل الطمع، وإلى السكر أكثر مما فعل العطش، وربما إلى الانتحار بقدر ما فعل اليأس."
Charles Caleb Colton
"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion."
"ثلاثة سبلٍ لمواجهةِ مكارِهِ الحياة: باللامبالاة، أو بالفلسفة، أو بالدين."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms."
"لطالما كانت أزمنة المحن والاضطراب العام منبتًا لأعظم العقول. فأنقى المعدن يُصاغ من أشد الأفران لهيبًا، وأسطع البروق تنبثق من أحلك العواصف."
Charles Caleb Colton
"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion."
"إنّ سُبُلَ مُجابهةِ مَصائِبِ الحياةِ ثلاثٌ: اللامبالاةُ، والفلسفةُ، والدين."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."
Charles Caleb Colton
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."
Charles Caleb Colton
"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip."
Charles Caleb Colton
"True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost."
Charles Caleb Colton
"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
Charles Caleb Colton
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