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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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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONAn Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBody and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMake no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMan is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONDeliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONGod will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONUnlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIn life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON