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Charles Caleb Colton

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Pretend, More, Really

Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Man, Law, Equity

Charles Caleb Colton

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Friends, Good, Good Friends

Charles Caleb Colton

The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own.

Present, Over, Every

Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Love, Pride, Fashion

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Life, Dance, Mistress

Charles Caleb Colton

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Daily, Poverty, Bread

Charles Caleb Colton

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Youth, Years, Interest

Charles Caleb Colton

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

Patience, Support, Weakness

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship – never.

Friendship, Never, Ends

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

worthy, victories

Charles Caleb Colton

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day.