Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBody and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONInsults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTheories are private property, but truth is common stock.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONFor one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONOur actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON