The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.Charles Caleb Colton
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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