Charles Caleb Colton
Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
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A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
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True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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most men know what they hate few what they love
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The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live
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Men spend their lives in anticipations,— in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other— it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship never.
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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.
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Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship never.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame
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Men spend their lives in anticipations,— in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other— it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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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.
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True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.
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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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