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.
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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.Charles Caleb Colton
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.
Charles Caleb Colton
Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
Charles Caleb Colton
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision And yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton
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