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Ought Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to…
- We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a…
- It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result…
- Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
- He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
- Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low…
- When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things,…
- He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
More Ought Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. — John Ashcroft
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought… — Teresa of Avila
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it… — Francis Bacon