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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good! (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them? (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are sermons in stones, in healthy books, and good in everything (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little farther, and try to plant in a virtue in its place, otherwise he will have his labor to renew (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
So idle are dull readers, and so industrious are dull authors, that puffed nonsense bids fair to blow unpuffed sense wholly out of the field (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Nobility of birth does not always ensure a corresponding nobility of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog, rather than a spur (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Virtue, without talent, is a coat of mail without a sword; it may indeed defend the wearer, but will not enable him to protect his friend (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
An elegant writer has observed, that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)
There are three kinds of power, wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former (Charles Caleb Colton Quotes)