"Pain may be said to follow pleasure as…" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow."
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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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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you…
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
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Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
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