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Cannot Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
- Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
- That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
- Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least…
- Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
- Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
- We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
- The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison;…
- Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will…
- Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was…
- This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
- If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs…
- In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint,…
- Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced…
- Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but…
- Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
- If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be…
- 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…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. — Pam Brown
- It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide… — Gary Zukav
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida