Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.Charles Caleb Colton
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.
Charles Caleb Colton
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Charles Caleb Colton
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
Charles Caleb Colton
The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.
Charles Caleb Colton
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.
Charles Caleb Colton
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