Charles Rollin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.
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Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.
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A delicate thought is a flower of the mind.
-- Charles Rollin
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There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
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The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.
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The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.
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It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observed, the more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced, and leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.
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Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
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