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Things Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that…
- He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three…
- How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come;…
- My take away here is to not make assumptions when analyzing data. It might be safe to assume you Facebook page will produce more results…
- The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison;…
- A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know,…
- It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing…
- No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man…
- Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory…
- 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,…
- Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil.…
- There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.
- Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and,…
- There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.
- Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES…
- He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
- Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
- The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most…
- The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which…
- Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
- Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle