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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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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses,…
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Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind.…
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When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae,…
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Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they…
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I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these…
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For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes…
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This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace…
— Georges Perec
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Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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