Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONDeliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONButler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPhysical 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 COLTONA high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONKnowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSuicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBody and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTotal freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThat writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTrue contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONConstant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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