"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
― Charles Caleb Colton
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Men
― Charles Caleb Colton
More From Charles Caleb Colton
- "Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm."
- "There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."
- "Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess."
More In Men
- "If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn’t it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"― Gloria Steinem
- "Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."― Walter Savage Landor
- "By nature, men love newfangledness."― Geoffrey Chaucer