"By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton has 484 quotes on this site.
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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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I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
— Heinz Pagels
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The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite…
— Ed Asner
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You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do…
— Judith Krantz
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For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of…
— Richard Stallman
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The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels…
— Ann Zwinger
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Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find…
— Joan Jett
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Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our…
— Unknown Author
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The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.
— Thomas Merton
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For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of…
— James Patrick Kelly
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I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.
— Pharrell Williams
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I like to browse in Cartier, Chanel and Gucci and if something special grabs my eye I splash out.
— Lisa Snowdon
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I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse…
— Ron Rash
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