~ Charles Caleb Colton Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.

[MysteRy]

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and assumes ten different positions in a day.

[MysteRy]

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day.

[MysteRy]

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.

[MysteRy]

Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

[MysteRy]

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

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Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

[MysteRy]

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

[MysteRy]

Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man both are necessary.

[MysteRy]

Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age.