"Death is the liberator of him whom freedom……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console."
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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- Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
- There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
- Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud…
- To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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- Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but…
- We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer…
- Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to…
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