True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON