"None of us are so much praised or…" — Charles Caleb Colton
"None of us are so much praised or censured as we think."
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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 Censured Quotes
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one of 21 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised,…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea],…
— Athanasius of Alexandria
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It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it…
— Samuel Johnson
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The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema,…
— Charles Hodge
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I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author…
— Anne Bronte
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have…
— Sri Aurobindo
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In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine…
— Samuel Johnson
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing…
— Plato
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If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger,…
— Horatio Nelson
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England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk.…
— John Garfield
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