Charles Caleb Colton
"It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act."
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"It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away."
Charles Caleb Colton
"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."
Charles Caleb Colton
"I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals."
Charles Caleb Colton
"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."
Charles Caleb Colton
"We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."
Charles Caleb Colton
"He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later."
Charles Caleb Colton
"The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men."
Charles Caleb Colton
"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
Charles Caleb Colton
"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and assumes ten different positions in a day."
Charles Caleb Colton
"True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
Charles Caleb Colton
"The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried."
Charles Caleb Colton
"True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander."
Charles Caleb Colton
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