"Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer."
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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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Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive -…
— Rajneesh
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The Holy Spirit cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He…
— Samuel Chadwick
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You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to…
— Patrick Pearse
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Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise…
— Anatoli Boukreev
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The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.
— Margaret Weis
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LIFE CAN BE LIVED IN TWO WAYS. One is that of the soldier, and the other, that of the sannyasin.…
— Osho
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People fear what they dont understand and hate what they cannot conquer.
— Rashida Rowe
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