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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.
suffering-pain expectations broken
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. Charles Dickens
suffering reign france
The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.
suffering earth sickness
There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.
suffering saint seeds
Suffering saints are living seed.
suffering miserable-person wealth
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
suffering disease way
We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers. Alan Watts
suffering problem dies
If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
suffering sake christ
If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake. Aiden Wilson Tozer
suffering reason results
If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits. Chin-Ning Chu
coward instinct
I was a coward on instinct. William Shakespeare
coward persons just-one
I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward. Edith Piaf
coward obscurity rust
I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? Charlotte Bronte
coward would-be poison
The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be. Brent Weeks
coward chickens betting
When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. B. C. Forbes
cowardice pacifism
Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice. Adolf Hitler
cowardly people
It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers. Iyad Allawi
cowardly rash stand violence
We won't stand for cowardly acts. We just want this rash of violence to end in our community.
coward coward-and-cowardice faith fear glories shines soul
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see Heaven's glories shine, And, Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear Emily Bronte