Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
WISDOM · VERIFIED · EN
C. C. Colton Quote
“Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places—at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.”
0
Source: Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers — Wikisource
Attribution status: verified · Publication status: cleared
Explore more quotes attributed to C. C. Colton or browse wisdom quotes.
If you believe this quote is incorrectly attributed or should be removed, see Copyright and quote corrections.
Related verified quotes
The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence.
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head, or a very short creed.
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.