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Great minds must be ready not ...

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make
them.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

To sentence a man of true geni...

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

We own almost all our knowledg...

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

As no roads are so rough as th...

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

To know a man, observe how he ...

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

True friendship is like sound ...

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

True friendship is like sound ...

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

True friendship is like sound ...

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Is made more sacred by adversi...

Is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Constant success shows us but ...

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Ladies of Fashion starve their...

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Bigotry murders religion to fr...

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Life often presents us with a ...

Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The consequences of things are...

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Honor is unstable and seldom t...

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The old ways are the safest an...

The old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Death is the liberator of him ...

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Pedantry is the showy display ...

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 942 quotes

It is with disease of the mind...

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Contemporaries appreciate the ...

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

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