"Where we cannot invent, we may at least…" — Charles Caleb Colton

"Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve."

— 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.
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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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing… — Warren G. Bennis
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. — Angela Thirkell
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling… — Eugene Ionesco
Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with… — Juan Gris
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old,… — Charles Caleb Colton
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is… — Thomas Jefferson
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller. — John Green
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret… — John Green

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