"Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed."
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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.
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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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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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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
— Arthur W. Pink
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The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do…
— Patrick Henry
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It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full…
— William Godwin
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You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at…
— Blaise Pascal
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Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
— Edward Heath
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
— Bergen Evans
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In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards…
— John Sergeant Wise
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Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons,…
— Joseph Rotblat
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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls.
— Stuart Rose
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