"We are more inclined to hate one another……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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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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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also…
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The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of…
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but…
— Michelle Bachelet
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I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976.…
— Michele Bachmann
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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined…
— Henry Adams
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never…
— Charles Baudelaire
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
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The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those…
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We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is…
— Clive Bell
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Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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