As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONOur minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONDoubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONGrant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNone are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLogic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMost females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMen’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONKnowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTheories are private property, but truth is common stock.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON