Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
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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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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
- The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
- Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
- In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
- Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
- Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
- There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
- Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
- Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
- He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
- True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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- Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
- He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
- Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
- 'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
- Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
- Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.