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Ambition is to the mind what t...

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

There is this paradox in pride...

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Of all the marvelous works of ...

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

To despise our own species is ...

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Pride requires very costly foo...

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Pride, like the magnet, consta...

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

We may lay in a stock of pleas...

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Opinions, like showers, are ge...

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

In life we shall find many men...

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

True goodness is not without t...

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Philosophy is a goddess, whose...

Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Avarice has ruined more men th...

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

When in reading we meet with a...

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Afflictions sent by providence...

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Calumny crosses oceans, scales...

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The upright, if he suffer calu...

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Life often presents us with a ...

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Some frauds succeed from the a...

Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

As that gallant can best affec...

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The true motives of our action...

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

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