No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Publish Sink
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
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.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Profound Suspect
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Mindset
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Oneself Raise
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Excess Prudent
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Capital Regulation Representation Sign Word
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Mindset
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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