It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Measurement
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anticipate Bliss Drink Enchant
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Intimate Substance
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Discharge
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Severe
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Dangerous
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Dangerous
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Case Substance
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Best End
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Midst

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