A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPhysicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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