"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence." — Charles Caleb Colton

"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."

— Charles Caleb Colton

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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton has 484 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that…
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number;…
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud…
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but…
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer…
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to…

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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. — Francis Bacon
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both… — Roland Barthes
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that… — Conrad Black
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. — William Blake
Excessive fear is always powerless. — Aeschylus
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender… — Christian Nestell Bovee
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one. — Francesca Annis
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. — Antisthenes
Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only… — Unknown Author
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which… — Emile Durkheim

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