Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
few men
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
becoming men others paradox prevents pride
There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so
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.
becoming men others paradox prevents
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
men coats shabby
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
wise men may
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
men two rogues
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
men miserable pleasure
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.
mean men light
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.