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Love Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton compares love to a volcano, warning that getting too close can swallow you. He says a simple hug can speak louder than a thousand words. He also notes that people often hate each other over disagreements but can love each other over shared points.

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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

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Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

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There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

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put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

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Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.

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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

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Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

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Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

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It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an…

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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that…

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Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

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There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are…

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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross…

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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not…

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Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it,…

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Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of…

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Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can…

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The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her…

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Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from…

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We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon…

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There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being…

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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

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Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

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It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

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“most men know what they hate; few what they love”

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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

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A hug is worth a thousand words.

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None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs…

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Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on…

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Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

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The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.

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Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved…

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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

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Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

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Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

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Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we…

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We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over…

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We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed

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Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach…

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Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith…

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When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into…

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