"Law and equity are two things which God……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder."
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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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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen…
— Francis Bacon
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of…
— Adam Sedgwick
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He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great…
— Thomas Browne
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This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us…
— Ronald Reagan
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Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder
— Kim Stanley
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What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
— Aldous Huxley
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History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings,…
— Charles Darwin
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All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow…
— Harriet Martineau
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Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads.…
— Wendell Willkie
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