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Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton föddes 1780 och dog 1832 - engelsk författare och prästman.
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 We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed |
| Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. |
| Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| We ask advice, but we mean approbation. |
| Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay |
| True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. |
| Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. |
| 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 |
 Vänskap övergår ofta till kärlek, men aldrig kärlek till vänskap. | Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. |
| Äkta vänskap är som en god hälsa; man förstår inte vad man har innan man förlorar den. | True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. |
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