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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.
modern poet should
How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons. Camille Paglia
modern apprentice
The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'. Barry Commoner
modern
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny. Dan Stevens
modern solutions
It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems. Corin Nemec
modern-life plumber ifs
If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber. Albert Einstein
modern outside presidency turned
When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element. Fred Greenstein
modern presented words
There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.
modern people
I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains. Dean Miller
modern success tolkien
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. George R. R. Martin
thyself
Acquaint thyself with God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
thyself
In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself. Edgar Allan Poe
thyself
Content thyself to be obscurely good. Joseph Addison
thyself
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. Thomas Browne