| 74 Famous Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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“There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.”
Pride Quotes |
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“Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.”
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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.”
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“The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.”
Wealth Quotes |
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“To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes |
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“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
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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.”
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“To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.”
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“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.”
All about love Quotes |
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“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
Friends / friendship Quotes |
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“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Friends / friendship Quotes |
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“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton.”
Friendship Quotes |
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“Is made more sacred by adversity.”
Adversity Quotes |
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“Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
Adversity Quotes |
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“Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.”
Appearance Quotes |
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“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.”
Bigotry Quotes |
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“Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.”
Choice Quotes |
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“The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.”
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“Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.”
Courage Quotes |
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“The old ways are the safest and surest ways.”
Custom Quotes |
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“Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.”
Death / immortality Quotes |
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“Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.”
Detail Quotes |
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“It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.”
Disease Quotes |
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“Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.”
Existence Quotes |
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“Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”
Eye Quotes |
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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