Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONCruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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 COLTONTyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONUnlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONDiffidence is the better part of knowledge.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONGreat men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSelf-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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 COLTONPride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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 COLTON