He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.Charles Caleb Colton
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.
Charles Caleb Colton
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Charles Caleb Colton
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Charles Caleb Colton
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