The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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About Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton (bapt. 11 December 1777 – 28 April 1832) was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.

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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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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.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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He doesn't love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn't know any better. When I trusted everyone. I'm not that person anymore.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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You cannot step into the same river twice.

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My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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Sometimes you have to know when to let hope go.

—Jennifer L. Armentrout in Deity

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Sometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.

—Aurora Rose Reynolds in Assumption

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