"Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness." — Charles Caleb Colton
"Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness."
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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, 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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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that…
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
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Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one…
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But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've…
— John Boehner
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear.…
— Abdallah II
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If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants,…
— Unknown Author
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When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is…
— John Howard Griffin
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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine…
— Mark Twain
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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my…
— William Shakespeare
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God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver..
— Timothy Keller
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Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.
— Richard Neustadt
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You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry…
— Charles Spurgeon
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