No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONAn honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTrue friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBody and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWomen that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIf a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONGod 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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONFalsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSelf-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIgnorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON