What did Charles Caleb Colton mean by: Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects. Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England Copy
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Redemption, Regret, Selfishness, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Friendship, Misfortunes, Support, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Damnation, Passion, Salvation, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Change, Fallacy, Truth, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
+ We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Humility, Nature, Self-esteem, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Advice, Restraint, Wisdom, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Forgiveness, Memory, self-care, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
If a horse has four legs, and I’m riding it, I think I can win. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Confidence, Strategy, Victory, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter. Francois Delsarte Musician · France
