"He that places himself neither higher nor lower……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility."
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
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A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
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On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted…
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
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I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
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In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the…
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