"A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"A 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."
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton has 484 quotes on this site.
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number;…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud…
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to…
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What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes…
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Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.
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When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God…
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This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane…
— Harry Reasoner
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To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.
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Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this…
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Believe me, I grow daily more convinced that the atmosphere is an inexhaustible source of countless beauties. It is up…
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A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.
— Tony Lema
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Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist
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A joyous person abounds with energy and feels buoyant, because he or she is running a higher frequency current of…
— Gary Zukav
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Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do…
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