"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Ability
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"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Adversity
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"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

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"We ask advice but we mean approbation."

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"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Age and Aging
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"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness."

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"My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Defeat
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"When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat."

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"Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it."

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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."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Difficulties
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"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do."

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"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."

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

Colton, Charles Caleb on Economy and Economics
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"The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Extremes and Extremists
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"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

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"The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values."

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"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."

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"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."

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"Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Freedom
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"Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."

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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."

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"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

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"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Genius
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"Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end."

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"Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking."

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