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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge. — Charles Caleb Colton

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. — Charles Caleb Colton

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. — Charles Caleb Colton

Deformity of the heart I call
The worst deformity of all;
For what is form, or what is face,
But the soul's index, or its case? — Charles Caleb Colton

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain. — Charles Caleb Colton

Willing's good," he whispers. "Wet's even better. — K. Bromberg

You're pregnant?" I can't even believe the words I'm saying as I pull her toward me, and onto my lap. — K. Bromberg

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one. — Charles Caleb Colton

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat. — Charles Caleb Colton

Anger is practical awkwardness. — Charles Caleb Colton

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. — Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. — Charles Caleb Colton

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent. — Charles Caleb Colton

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you. — Charles Caleb Colton

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume. — Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton

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

There 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 Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. — Charles Caleb Colton

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God. — Charles Caleb Colton

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. — Charles Caleb Colton

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. — Charles Caleb Colton

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. — Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. — Charles Caleb Colton

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior. — Charles Caleb Colton

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. — Charles Caleb Colton

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. — Charles Caleb Colton

Pride 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 Colton

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other — Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. — Charles Caleb Colton

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

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried. — Charles Caleb Colton

He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend must either have a very long head, or a very short creed. — Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. — Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male. — Charles Caleb Colton

Why drink to cover it up because hurting is feeling and feeling is living, and isn't it good to be alive?'" Colton — K. Bromberg

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. — Charles Caleb Colton

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer. — Charles Caleb Colton

Yeah. I know why she cuts. I just don't know the seed-reason. It's deep inside her, and it'll take time and patience to get it out of her. — Jasinda Wilder

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors — Charles Caleb Colton

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. — Charles Caleb Colton

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win. — Charles Caleb Colton

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness. — Charles Caleb Colton

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. — Charles Caleb Colton

Society has pretty much taught us that it's inside the lines, or outside. But there's so much more in between. — Amber L. Johnson

We should get these wet clothes off," I say conscious now of the cold.
A smile breaks over Colton's face. He raises an eyebrow. "Yeah? — Jessi Kirby

I race you, Ryles," he says in a voice that's implacable and unwavering amidst the swirling chaos. — K. Bromberg

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work. — Charles Caleb Colton

He's not weird. He's just not exactly like you. — Amber L. Johnson

Where are there lots of colors, Colton?" "In Heaven, Dad. That's where all the rainbow colors are! — Todd Burpo

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. — Charles Caleb Colton

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him. — Charles Caleb Colton

You should really leave," Colton told him. "The energy I got in my heart is much stronger than anything you have seen. — Cameron Jace

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. — Charles Caleb Colton

While I'm trying to be a villain, Tyler Posey's just making me break character all the time. It's hilarious. — Colton Haynes

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. — Charles Caleb Colton

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God. — Charles Caleb Colton

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved? — Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. — Charles Caleb Colton

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility. — Charles Caleb Colton

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. — Charles Caleb Colton

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. — 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 are. — Charles Caleb Colton

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself. — Charles Caleb Colton

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them. — Charles Caleb Colton

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. — Charles Caleb Colton

Most men know what they hate; few what they love — Charles Caleb Colton

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment. — Charles Caleb Colton

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. — Charles Caleb Colton

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. — Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker. — Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself! — Charles Caleb Colton

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs. — Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. — Charles Caleb Colton

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. — Charles Caleb Colton

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed
to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. — Charles Caleb Colton

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave — Charles Caleb Colton

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. — Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. — 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

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain. — Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak. — Charles Caleb Colton

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. — Charles Caleb Colton

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. — Charles Caleb Colton

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it. — Charles Caleb Colton

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts. — Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? — Charles Caleb Colton

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book. — Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings. — Charles Caleb Colton

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,
strong to execute, but blind to perceive. — Charles Caleb Colton

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. — Charles Caleb Colton

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change — Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty. — Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. — Charles Caleb Colton

Perfection doesn't exist ... only good attempts. — Charles Caleb Colton