Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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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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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Total 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.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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