That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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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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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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