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«The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Excess,
Youth
| Keywords:
checks, excess, payable, thirty, Thirty Years
«There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Praise,
Reputation
| Keywords:
abused, abusing, accompanied, accompanying, Establishing, former, invariably, latter, modes, praised, rogues, secure
«Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| Keywords:
goods
«True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.»
«When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Advice,
Friends,
Maxim,
Reading
| Keywords:
application, consulted, immediate, maxim, purposely
«We ask advice, but we mean approbation.»
«A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
buoyant, cheerfulness, concomitant, concomitants, erudition, gravity, harmless, hilarity, infrequent, pomposity, solemnities, solemnity
«Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Best friend
| Keywords:
ascribe, motives, praised, sinister, tincture
«Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun»
«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.»
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