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.
More Quotes from 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
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Charles Caleb Colton
Man is an embodied paradox, A bundle of contradictions.
Charles Caleb Colton
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.
Charles Caleb Colton
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.
Charles Caleb Colton
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