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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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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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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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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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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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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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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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