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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.
By Charles Caleb Colton
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Time
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People will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
By Charles Caleb Colton
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Marriage
By Charles Caleb Colton
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.
By Charles Caleb Colton
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
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My lowest days as a Christian and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
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When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.
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Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
By Charles Caleb Colton
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
By Charles Caleb Colton