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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.
weakness impotence
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. Edgar Friedenberg
weakness misery shame
If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
weakness retreat
Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats. Benjamin Netanyahu
weakness compromise power-corrupts
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more. Barbara Tuchman
weakness driving conviction
Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go. Abraham Lincoln
weakness doe rebellion
The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Richard G. Scott
weakness evidence
There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness. Brene Brown
weakness vulnerability
Vulnerability is not weakness.
weakness dangerous myth
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
originality
I'm not like anyone. I'm me. Elizabeth Taylor
originality valuable
What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable. Daniel Webster
originality
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. Antoni Gaudi
originality
Originality is going back to origins.
originality enough accepted
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. Anthony Storr
originality unfaithful translate
The original is unfaithful to the translation. Jorge Luis Borges
originality illusion
Originality is merely an illusion. M. C. Escher
originality logic invisible
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible. Odilon Redon
originality provoking
Originality provokes originality. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe