"To be continually subject to the breath of……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded."
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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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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in…
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
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A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the…
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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live…
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes.…
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational…
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long.…
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every…
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