He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONGod is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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 COLTONMost females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONOur admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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 COLTONMan is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWar is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt 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 COLTONConstant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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