"Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of…" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions."
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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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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of…
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Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a…
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a…
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like…
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Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I…
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Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of…
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We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives,…
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The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so…
— Jonathan Swift
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Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a…
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Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from…
— Thomas Huxley
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This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State…
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