"Nothing so completely baffles one who is full……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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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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Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always,…
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your…
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I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when…
— Joe Strummer
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The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever…
— Alexander Herrmann
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New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a…
— Maeve Brennan
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Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that…
— F B Meyer
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One piece of advice can be universally handed out, and it applies equally to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. If…
— Mario Pei
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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People say Dolphins are intelligent and that but they’ve never done anything that have blown me away. They say I’m…
— Karl Pilkington
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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is…
— Henri Bergson
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For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with…
— Vanilla Ice
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