A Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
English - Writer
1780 - 1832

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An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.