"Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them."
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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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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and…
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I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
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I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.
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I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.
— Brooke Burke
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I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.
— Jeb Bush
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander…
— Fidel Castro
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
— James Allen
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You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.
— Saint Augustine
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The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
— Peter McWilliams
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
— Robert Browning
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is…
— Samuel Gompers
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