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CHARLES CALEB COLTON Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its maz...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
True friendship is like sound health;...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove y...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pr...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, wh...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward a...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and sim...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make a...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitteres...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase wi...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which mos...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, an...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is general...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hott...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man ar...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by o...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school....
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted an...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; sinc...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, w...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Le moment présent a un avantage sur tous les autres : il nous appartient.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most en...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must fi...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are bot...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Through the proportion of those who think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill
CHARLES CALEB COLTON War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so sav...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The old ways are the safest and surest ways
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old sy...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one pro...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquain...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, real...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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