"Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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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…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number;…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
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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…
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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…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to…
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Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.
— John O. Brennan
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The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of…
— Michael Shermer
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Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it…
— Aaron Copland
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Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.
— Willie Garson
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Everything contains its antithesis.
— Juliet Stevenson
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Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense…
— Aravind Adiga
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A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the…
— Frank Herbert
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I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all…
— Gerhard Richter
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It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We…
— Martin Buber
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... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he…
— Unknown Author
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