"If Satan ever laughs, it must be at……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has."
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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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More Dupes Quotes
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its…
— William Beveridge
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool…
— Giacomo Casanova
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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes…
— Elbridge Gerry
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I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led…
— Thomas Jefferson
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War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.
— Thomas Paine
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The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out…
— John Calvin
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Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's…
— Wesley Morris
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