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| Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
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| The 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 Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honoured so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
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| Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| 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 Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| 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 | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
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| Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| 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 | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Mystery is not profoundness. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
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| Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Of all the marvellous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
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