"There are three modes of bearing the ills……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas…
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits…
— Buzz Aldrin
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I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century,…
— Christiane Amanpour
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let…
— Yasser Arafat
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More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants.…
— William J. Clinton
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In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is…
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