"Riches may enable us to confer favors, but……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."
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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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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
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I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad…
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your…
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We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
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There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to…
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To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.
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[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.
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When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not…
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us…
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If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
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I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience…
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