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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right, without them.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory-of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
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That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
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.
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With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb Colton -
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
Charles Caleb Colton -
If we can advance any propositions that are both true and new, these are indisputably our own, by right of discovery; and if we can repeat what is old more briefly and brightly than others, this also becomes our own, by right of conquest.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it.
Charles Caleb Colton -
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
Charles Caleb Colton -
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton -
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
Charles Caleb Colton