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Charles Caleb Colton has 511 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people…
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I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to…
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It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.
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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities…
— Jane Jacobs
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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations…
— George Bernard Shaw
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself…
— James Joyce
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You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less…
— Bill Bryson
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everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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