Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBody and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMuch may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNext to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONEloquence 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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONFortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are male as well as female gossips.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONExaminations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNone are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThose that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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