Man is an embodied paradox, A bundle of contradictions.
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
Death is like thunder in two particulars, we are alarmed at the sound of it, and it is formidable only from that which has prceded it.
Charles Caleb Colton
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Charles Caleb Colton
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the heart of man for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.
Charles Caleb Colton
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton
Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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