Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThat is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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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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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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