Quotations Page 'C'

Love is too young to know what conscience is;Yet who knows not conscience is shorn of love.

- Shakespeare -

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A little while she strove, and much repented,And whispering 'Iwill ne'er consent, consented'.

- Byron, Don Juan -

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A conservative is a man who is too cowerdly to fight and too fat to run.

- Elbert Hubbadr, Epigrams -

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength may be given to every upbringing plant of duty.

- Emerson -

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

-Emerson, Essays:self-Relieance -

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There is no consolation in truth alone.

- Pascal, On Death -

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Over the bridge of sights we pass to the place of peace.

- C.H.Spurgeon, 'Salt Cellar' -

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Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than Executed.

- Addison, Cato -

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O conspiracySham'st thou to show they dangerous brow by night.When evils are most free.

- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar -

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Constancy is the foundation of virtues.

- Bacon, Du Augmentis Scientarlum -

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The secret of sucsses is constancy to purpose.

- Disraeli -

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What's the Constitution between friends ?

- Timothy J.Campbell, To pres.Cleveland, 1885. -

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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.

- Descartes -

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Grown all to all, from no one vice exemptAnd most contemptible, to show contempt.

- Pope.Moral Essays -

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No one can boast of having never been despised.

- Vauvangius, Maxims -

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He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends.

- Shakespeare, As you Like It -

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When we have not what we like, we must like what we have.

- Bussy Rabutin, Letter to Mme, de Sevigne -

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Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content.The quiet mind is richer than crown.

- R.Green, Farewell to Folly -

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My soul hath her contents to absoluteThat another comfort like thisSucceeds in unknowen fate.

- Shakespeare, Othello -

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