True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Tag: Charles Caleb Colton
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.