"Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food."
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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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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that…
— Jeff Buckley
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
— Dick Cavett
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
— Winston Churchill
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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence…
— Unknown Author
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Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes.…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Memory feeds imagination.
— Amy Tan
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Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives…
— Francis Quarles
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I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.
— Joseph Fiennes
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom…
— Albert Camus
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True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters…
— Menno Simons
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