Charles Caleb Colton Quote

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.


Lacon: or, Many things in few words (ed. 1821)


There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon...

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon...

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon...

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon...