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ignorance progress too-much
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence. Charles Sumner
ignorance doe generations
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. Charles Dudley Warner
ignorance pride whole-family
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other Charles Caleb Colton
ignorance errors steps
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.
ignorance pride thinking
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
ignorance vices principles
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.
ignorance pedants disgusting
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
ignorance knowledge men
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
ignorance dwelling-place darkness
Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty. Charles Spurgeon
wish gates
The wishing gate opens into nothing.
wish half wells
The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them. Al Stewart
wish weakness euthanasia
My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing. Al Pacino
wish looks too-much
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it. Djuna Barnes
wish language british
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. Diane Wakoski
wish world back-again
Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again David Guetta
wish criminal-mind criminals
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to) William Shakespeare
wish purpose failing
If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.
wish contempt
What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.
littles underestimate influence
We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things Charles W. Chesnutt
littles
I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little. Charles de Gaulle
littles arcs knows
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
littles making-money easy
Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more. Charles Dickens
littles wealth rich
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
littles want wealth
Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
littles revolution events
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
littles facts sometimes
Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.
littles too-much violence
In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.