"The rich are more envied by those who……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing."
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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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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every…
— Doris Lessing
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There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
— Samuel Johnson
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I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are…
— William Bennett
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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
— Rowan Williams
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The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very…
— Albert Einstein
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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
— Horace
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of…
— John Berger
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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
— Joseph Priestley
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful,…
— Edna Ferber
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He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
— Emile M. Cioran
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This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the…
— Osama bin Laden
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