Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHonor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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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.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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