"Falsehood is never so successful as when she……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right"
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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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Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
— Sun Tzu
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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
— John Milton
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Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and…
— Peter Cundall
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Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.
— Madeline Kahn
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Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,…
— John Milton
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When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead…
— John Owen
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Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
— Thomas Adams
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JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.
— Matthew Henry
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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend…
— John Milton
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
— John Steinbeck
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...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it…
— Louise Erdrich
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