Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Inspirational
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.
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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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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
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