What did Charles Caleb Colton mean by: Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set. Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England Copy
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Adversity, Self-awareness, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Accountability, Redemption, Repentance, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Danger, Foolishness, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Attraction, Hospitality, Ownership, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Approval, Motivation, Virtue, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Consequences, Love, Resentment, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Patience, Strength, Weakness, 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
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
