"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity,……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end."
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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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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
— Athol Fugard
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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer.…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children,…
— Charles Dickens
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One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full…
— Freeman Dyson
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound…
— Fritjof Capra
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied…
— Frank P. Ramsey
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Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in…
— Charles Babbage
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An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most…
— Ambrose Bierce
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