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Highest Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- 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…
- Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.
- In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted…
- The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and…
- Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
- It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it;…
- The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
- Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the…
- Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet…
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- To seek the highest good is to live well. — Saint Augustine
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. — Richard Bach
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest… — Roseanne Barr
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams
- The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but… — Joseph Addison
- And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing… — Glenn Beck
- Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes. — Ezra Taft Benson