"The most consistent men are not more unlike……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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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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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
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Trust is built with consistency.
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There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well,…
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue…
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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
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Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
— John Stuart Mill
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own…
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