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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Friendship Health Known Like Lost Seldom Sound True True Friendship Until Value

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Book Life Life Is A Like Lived Logical Mess Midst Most Must Orderly Sensible Theology Time

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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Begins Ends Like Magnificence Mathematics Nile Study

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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Been Brightest Calamity Confusion Darkest Furnace Great Greatest Hottest Minds Produced Productive Purest Storm Times

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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Ball Corruption Increase Like Must Once Rolling Set Snow

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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Ends Friendship Love Never Often

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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Actions Loudest Those Threats Weakest

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Avoid Better Danger Encounters He Hurricane Lee Meet Out Sea Shipwreck Shore Stands Storm Than Wait

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Flattery Form Imitation Sincerest

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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Almost Bring Circumstances Commerce Contingent Flourishes Our Precarious Shores Transitory Waves Winds

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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