"None are so fond of secrets as those……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation."
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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 Circulation Quotes
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
— John Adams
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Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and…
— Eric Alterman
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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around…
— Bill McKibben
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Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to…
— Murray Rothbard
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There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take…
— Unknown Author
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Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
— Raymond Carver
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Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper…
— Murray Rothbard
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