Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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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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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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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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