"When we are in the company of sensible……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not."
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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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I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
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Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must…
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Cautious of the flood so I always lay the right pipe.
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While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others,…
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
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