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Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton föddes 1780 och dog 1832 - engelsk författare och prästman.
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There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved

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

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity Commodore 64 er computeren, der lokker til demo-programmering.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it

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