"The French revolution was a .eune invented and……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire."
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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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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
— E F Schumacher
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People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in…
— Alice Bailey
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Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl…
— Kim Edwards
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Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a…
— Napoleon Hill
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The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to…
— Bruce Lee
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The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come…
— Willie Mays
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Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with…
— Ilka Chase
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Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.
— Brian Houston
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Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age.…
— Joel Garreau
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