John Churton Collins Quotes

• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

  John Churton Collins

  Love, Friendship, Atheist

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• Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

  John Churton Collins

  Inspirational, Mistake, Thinking

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• Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

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  Life, Trust, Men

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• If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

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  Secret, Comfort, Criminal Mind

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• Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

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  Inspirational, Faults, Mistrust

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• There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

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  Success, Fear, Desire

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• If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

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  Punishment, Vices, Complaining

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• The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.

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  Success, True Life, Secret

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• We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.

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  Responsibility, Evil, Bird

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• What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.

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  Relationship, Attraction

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• A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

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  Thinking, Fool, Failing

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• Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

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  Attitude, Favors, Claims

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• Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

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  Pride, Parent, Virtue

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• Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

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  Philosophy, Philosopher, Truth Is

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• No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

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  Confidence, Deserve

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• Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

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  Passion, Envy, Pleasure

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• In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.

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  Sea, Sorrow, Ponies

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• Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

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  Suicide, Opportunity, Murder

  Life and Memoirs of John Churton Collins Appendix VII (quoted by L. C. Collins)

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• To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

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  Friendship, Favors, Accepting

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• A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

  John Churton Collins

  Advice, Nine, Flattery

  In L. C. Collins Life of John Churton Collins (1912) p. 316

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