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Mistake Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
- Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
- Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such…
- Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes…
- It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it;…
- A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for…
- The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but…
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