"Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not."
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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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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,…
— Honore de Balzac
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In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because…
— Gerry Adams
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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves…
— Bono
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
— Barbara Bush
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
— Albert Camus
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
— Isabel Allende
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I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record…
— Tori Amos
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We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest…
— Yasser Arafat
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Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and…
— Edgar Lee Masters
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Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his…
— Dwight L. Moody
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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own…
— Andrew Jackson
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