Charles Caleb Colton
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
(topic: education)
- 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.
(topic: happiness)
- Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
(topic: honor)
- Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
(topic: knowledge)
- Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never.
(topic: love)
- To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
(topic: solitude-loneliness)
- There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
(topic: wisdom)
- Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
(topic: writing)
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