Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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• Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
• We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
• Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom…
• Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us…
• Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of…
• There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
• Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
• To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
• Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
• Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
• We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we…
• Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto…
• In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
• True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
• We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
• Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
• Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious…
• The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
• Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
• Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

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