"If we look backwards to antiquity it should……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race."
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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 Antiquity Quotes
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the…
— Unknown Author
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If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of…
— John Ruskin
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In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough…
— Janet Morris
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History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still,…
— Unknown Author
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting…
— William Buckland
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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of…
— Confucius
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