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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 mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool;…
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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be…
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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For the mere act of thinking a course expedient, when it is morally wrong, is demoralizing.
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