Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
act energy expect pray themselves
We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves
real deceit our-actions
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
discovery action motive
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.
our-actions action immortality
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
defeat emulation envy exalt herself looks lower spies
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat
few men
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
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No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health
camps improve large pay price refinement strengthen talents thus
Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the
life men patches shreds small throw
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
dies faculties memory
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies
drudgery genius man mill school sentence true
To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill
almost knowledge owe
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed
advantages anxious case doubtful encourage ought system
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.