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mistake golf swings
A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes. Carol Mann
mistake men long
No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit of mind to regard the infinite as something bounded. Carl Friedrich Gauss
mistake men talking
Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact. C. S. Lewis
mistake mean calling
I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you.
mistake sleep government
Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.
mistake errors track
Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step. Agnes Martin
mistake wish would-be
I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense. Charlotte Bronte
mistake taken men
There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly known, we take pleasure, I think, in being consummately ignored. What honest man on being casually taken for a housebreaker does not feel rather tickled than vexed at the mistake?
mistake army victory
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans. Charles de Gaulle
too-much enough
Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts. Alan Ladd
too-much fables labels
Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables Charles Spurgeon
too-much miserable made
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed. Djuna Barnes
too-much pebbles diamond
Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles. Bryce Courtenay
too-much week working-it
When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
too-much attention danger
Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention. Jane Austen
too-much argument disputes
Arguments are too much like disputes.
too-much used changed
Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me. China Mieville
too-much taste littles
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much. William Shakespeare
virtue
Patience is not a virtue! Alan Chadwick
virtue thrifty ifs
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
virtue scapes calumny
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
virtue cardinals temperance
That cardinal virtue, temperance. Edmund Burke
virtue
All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
virtue reason revelations
Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation. Archibald Alexander
virtue nobility
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.] Juvenal
virtue glory thirst
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
virtue
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. Bertolt Brecht