He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. — Charles Caleb Colton Energy Copy Share Image
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. — Charles Caleb Colton Advertising Copy Share Image
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils. — Charles Caleb Colton Choices Copy Share Image
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. — Charles Caleb Colton Black Copy Share Image
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. — Charles Caleb Colton Argument Copy Share Image
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience. — Charles Caleb Colton Age Copy Share Image
The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Foe Copy Share Image
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross… — Charles Caleb Colton Friendship Copy Share Image
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he… — Charles Caleb Colton Authorship Copy Share Image
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility,… — Charles Caleb Colton Companion Copy Share Image
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox… — Charles Caleb Colton Difficult Copy Share Image
There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men,… — Charles Caleb Colton All things Copy Share Image
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs… — Charles Caleb Colton Inspiration Copy Share Image
Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look… — Charles Caleb Colton Achievement Copy Share Image
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder… — Charles Caleb Colton Atheism Copy Share Image
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for… — Charles Caleb Colton Aggression Copy Share Image
My take away here is to not make assumptions when analyzing data. It might be safe to assume you Facebook page will… — Charles Caleb Colton Analyzing Copy Share Image
If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we… — Charles Caleb Colton Angel Copy Share Image
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best… — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common… — Charles Caleb Colton Common Copy Share Image
Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of… — Charles Caleb Colton Desert Copy Share Image
Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And… — Charles Caleb Colton Built Copy Share Image
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky… — Charles Caleb Colton Accidents Copy Share Image
That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind. — Charles Caleb Colton Begets Copy Share Image
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. — Charles Caleb Colton Being a hypocrite Copy Share Image
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. — Charles Caleb Colton Born Copy Share Image
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win. — Charles Caleb Colton Four Copy Share Image
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates. — Charles Caleb Colton Aging Copy Share Image
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. — Charles Caleb Colton Cradle Copy Share Image
God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it . — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. — Charles Caleb Colton Endurance Copy Share Image
Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God. — Charles Caleb Colton Life Copy Share Image
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. — Charles Caleb Colton Adolescent Copy Share Image
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment. — Charles Caleb Colton Attainment Copy Share Image
There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself! — Charles Caleb Colton Fear Copy Share Image
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. — Charles Caleb Colton Acquainted Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results. — Charles Caleb Colton Being real Copy Share Image
