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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.


Caleb Cushing

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CHARLES CALEB COLTON Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We ask advice but we mean approbation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man,...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its maz...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to r...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no s...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myse...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, liv...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
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