"Faults of the head are punished in this……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment."
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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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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
— Athol Fugard
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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer.…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children,…
— Charles Dickens
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One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full…
— Freeman Dyson
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound…
— Fritjof Capra
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied…
— Frank P. Ramsey
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Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in…
— Charles Babbage
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An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most…
— Ambrose Bierce
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