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Charles Caleb Colton Art Quotes - (10 quotes)

Charles Caleb Colton - From the Advice category:

We ask advice, but we mean approbation. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Charles Caleb Colton - From the Books category:

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason – they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Charles Caleb Colton - From the Friendship category:

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Charles Caleb Colton - From the Humanity category:

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Charles Caleb Colton - From the Humility category:

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Charles Caleb Colton - From the Imitation category:

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Charles Caleb Colton - From the Innovation category:

We ought not to be overanxious to encourage innovation, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Charles Caleb Colton - From the Knowledge category:

We owe almost all of our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Charles Caleb Colton - From the Moderation category:

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Charles Caleb Colton - From the Opportunity category:

Great minds must be ready not only to take the opportunities, but to make them. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Editor: Robert Genn

Consultants: Sara Genn, Richard Thompson
Technical Support and Presentation: Andrew Niculescu

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