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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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(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of…
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One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped…
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In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that…
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... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those…
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
— Carl Schurz
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Growing up, it was mainly just players I followed more than teams, with the exception of the Mariners. I never really had…
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