"I will not be revenged, and this I……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself."
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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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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have…
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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their…
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Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a…
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to…
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the…
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue,…
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