The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Copy Share Image
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own. — Charles Caleb Colton Advantage Copy Share Image
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources. — Charles Caleb Colton Benevolence Copy Share Image
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. — Charles Caleb Colton Clock Copy Share Image
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. — Charles Caleb Colton Equity Copy Share Image
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues. — Charles Caleb Colton Honest Copy Share Image
Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction… — Charles Caleb Colton Despot Copy Share Image
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower… — Charles Caleb Colton Ambition Copy Share Image
Deformity of the heart I call The worst deformity of all; For what is form, or what is face, But the soul's… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to… — Charles Caleb Colton Atheism Copy Share Image
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books… — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane,… — Charles Caleb Colton Danger Copy Share Image
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies… — Charles Caleb Colton Differences Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never… — Charles Caleb Colton Bad memories Copy Share Image
If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the… — Charles Caleb Colton Barriers Copy Share Image
Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Hypocrites act by virtue… They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts. — Charles Caleb Colton Consequence Copy Share Image
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife. — Charles Caleb Colton Marriage Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. — Charles Caleb Colton Education Copy Share Image
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. — Charles Caleb Colton Enemy Copy Share Image
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. — Charles Caleb Colton Crime Copy Share Image
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.” — Charles Caleb Colton Acquiring Copy Share Image
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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