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63 Quotes for 'Charles Caleb Colton' in the Database.
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Topic: Power
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There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Topic: Pride
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There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Topic: Pride
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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Topic: Progress
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Topic: Prudence
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Topic: Relationships
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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
Topic: Religion
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
Topic: Reputation
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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Topic: Self-knowledge
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Topic: Silence
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
Topic: Tolerance
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Topic: Truth
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
Topic: Wealth
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