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Letter "C" » Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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«The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Ignorance,
Pride
| Keywords:
beget, incestuous, mutually, Pride and
«Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Ignorance
| Keywords:
blank, erase, scribble, scribbled, scribbles, scribbling, sheet
«We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age»
«Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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possessed
«The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Power,
Religion
| Keywords:
apostles, converts, persecuting, preaching, retain, The Apostle, The three
«To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.»
«Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.»
«None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation»
«Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker»
«It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Discovery
| Keywords:
discoveries, mortified, mortify, mortifying
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