"Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places,……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea."
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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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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that…
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy…
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
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In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
— Pierre Corneille
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Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
— Pierre Corneille
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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
— Carlos Fuentes
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Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into…
— Xavier Becerra
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The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain…
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Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.
— Lord Byron
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of…
— Charles Babbage
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A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn…
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