John Churton Collins

Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to John Churton Collins?

  • → The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
  • → Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
  • → To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
  • → Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to John Churton Collins.

  • → Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
  • → I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
  • → There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
  • → One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to John Churton Collins.

  • → There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
  • → Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
  • → In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
  • → Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to John Churton Collins. Which one?

  • → People do not retire. They are retired by others.
  • → Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
  • → No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year.
  • → Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to John Churton Collins?

  • → When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
  • → A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
  • → To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
  • → Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to John Churton Collins?

  • → You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
  • → It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
  • → A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
  • → To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
  
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