Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after the date.Charles Caleb Colton
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers on their road.- Both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton
If we can advance propositions both true and new, these are our own by right of discovery and if we can repeat what is old, more briefly and brightly than others, this also Becomes our own, by right of conquest.
Charles Caleb Colton
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things and, second, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.
Charles Caleb Colton
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
Charles Caleb Colton
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