"The temple of truth is built indeed of……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials."
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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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Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would…
— James E. Faust
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For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for…
— Bryant H. McGill
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It is no small advantage to the holy life to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to…
— Thomas Case
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original…
— Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser…
— Lord Byron
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You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of…
— T.H. White
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to…
— Jacqueline Carey
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Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd,…
— John Milton
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Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness - becomes…
— Rajneesh
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