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 COLTONThe poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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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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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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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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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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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 rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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