"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and……" — Charles Caleb Colton

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."

— 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.
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that…
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number;…
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.
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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