“Many colors blend into one.”
Color est e pluribus unus.
Virgil (-70–-19 BC) Ancient Roman poet
Appendix Virgiliana, Moretum 102.
Compare: E pluribus unum ("Out of many, one"), motto on the Great Seal of the United States.
Attributed
“Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 46.
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