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CHARLES CALEB COLTON Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, liv...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest ar...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our frie...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attache...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, l...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon a...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; sinc...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON