#will

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#course #less #life #more #others

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#cannot #endure #mind #retain #will

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#hate #know #persons #some #them

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#brim #cannot #fill #her #herself

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#down #erudition #moderns #plagiarism #steal

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#books #how #know #men #ought

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#always #apparent #difficulty #ease #fine

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#gall #incomes #large #like #our

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#become #better #certainly #good #infallibly

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics. ↗

— Roscoe Conkling

#american politics #before #election #politics #us