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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.
liable logic theory
Logic is only a theory liable for most of the mystery. Monk Frost
liable natural neither nor physical pure scientist
The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.
liable message night sales saturday sent specials
The message that has been sent is, you're going to be liable for Saturday night specials and sales thereof. Robert Montgomery
liable downsizing ifs
You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you. Jerry Coleman
liable born folks
But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet. Zora Neale Hurston
second-thoughts
I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts. Jonathan Safran Foer
second-thoughts
Second thoughts, they say, are best. John Dryden
second-thoughts worst
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts. William Shenstone