Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessin…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.90
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. ✨ Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). Lord Chesterfiel … ▶
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1836). Lacon: Or, Many Thin … ▶
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1823). Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, … ▶

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