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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

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Food Happiness Pride
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Himself Human Listening Nature World
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Deep Enjoyment Health Jealous Money
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Dance Grand Happiness Life Mistress Route
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Answer Examination Fools Greatness Man Preparation Wisdom
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 Empty Follow Misfortune Pain Shadow Substance
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Compose Goodness Observation Writing
A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Away Man Production Throw Time
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Grand Misery Passion Success
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Doubt Faith
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Adult Convinience Finding Purity Truth
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bad Injury Strength Weakness

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.

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