"If martyrdom is now on the decline, it……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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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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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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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to…
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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