"Hurry is the mark of a weak mind,…" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one."
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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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Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with…
— William J. Brennan
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Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.
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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses…
— Abraham Lincoln
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[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which…
— William Halsey
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There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter…
— Howard Whitley Eves
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The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people; be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth; will…
— Joseph Pulitzer
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Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only…
— Samuel Smiles
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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
— Aldus Manutius
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Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments,…
— Unknown Author
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No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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All the angels in the whole universe care about you; and if God wants to dispatch them all, He can…
— David Jeremiah
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Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip…
— Jack Abramoff
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