"How strange it is that we of the……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise."
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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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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it…
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together,…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
— H.G. Wells
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If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People…
— Helen Prejean
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Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused…
— Dianne Feinstein
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When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a…
— James A. Baldwin
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This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer…
— Euripides
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When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights,…
— William J. Clinton
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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine…
— Martin Luther
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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has…
— Mark Twain
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Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused…
— Tim Field
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When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I…
— William J. Clinton
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