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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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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can…
— Jose Mujica
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The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle…
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The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or…
— Plato
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It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.
— Bulent Ecevit
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If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.
— Anne Boleyn
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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And…
— Marie de France
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Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his…
— Horatius Bonar
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