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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.
enemy want ifs
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
enemy thee harm
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
enemy causes violent
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
enemy may
Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be. Aiden Wilson Tozer
enemy democracy capitalism
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy. David Korten
enemy i-realized persons
Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
enemy nasty said
The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. Camille Paglia
enemy-of-progress enemy progress
Free time is the enemy of progress Casey Neistat
enemy perfect
The perfect was the enemy of the good, Tom Curley
wicked earth would-be
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
wicked witch casts
Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch. Alan Rickman
wicked-person lovers common
Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.
wicked wrong-person persons
It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all. Edith Wharton
wicked stories bob
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories. Ed Sheeran
wicked
It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you. Charlotte Bronte
wickedness criminals weak
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness. Edgar Rice Burroughs
wicked charity beast
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce! William Shakespeare
wicked grit true-grit
The wicked flee when none pursueth. Charles Portis