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mistake power order
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; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms. Charles Caleb Colton
mistake greatness ignorant
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
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 spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
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 greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing. Charles Stross
mistake ends chains
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest. Charles Spurgeon
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
mankind historian dependence
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? David Hume
mankind humankind knows
What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know. Bertrand Russell
mankind
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd. Benjamin Franklin
mankind opposition
Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
mankind
Science is the only religion of mankind. Arthur C. Clarke
mankind shall
When there's only one race, and that's mankind, we shall be free. Garth Brooks
mankind draws
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind. Elias Canetti
mankind consolation solemn
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
mankind interest consulting
Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned. Baruch Spinoza
thelema
There is no part of me that is not of the Gods. Aleister Crowley