"So long as lust, whether of the world……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God."
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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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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But…
— Antonio Banderas
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God himself took this human flesh upon him.
— William Barclay
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Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
— Geoffrey Beene
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
— Samuel Butler
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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the…
— A. S. Byatt
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we…
— Benjamin Carson
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.…
— Benjamin Carson
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
— Emile M. Cioran
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