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genius reason highest
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. Charles Caleb Colton
genius literature nodding
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
genius literature may
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
genius talent particular
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
genius eccentricity
Eccentricities of genius. Charles Dickens
genius athens males
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. Camille Paglia
genius poetic emily
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
genius said mark
There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar. William Shakespeare
genius republican throwing
Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages. Bob Packwood
neighbors-and-friends neighbors-friends lawyer
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Abraham Lincoln
neighbors people realize wisdom
Most people don't realize their neighbors are as nosy as they are. Greg Evans
neighbors wee
We're having just a wee get-together with neighbors.
neighbors stick
See all us? We neighbors. We got to stick together. Angela Johnson
neighbors pipe safety
But we feel the safety of the neighbors to the pipe is more important.
neighbors
Neighbors come by and give us food. We have support. Jose Rivera
neighbors reach similarly
we feel it is very important to reach out and do what we can for our neighbors who have not been similarly blessed.
neighbors quickly talk
Go back to your neighbors and talk to them as quickly as you can.
neighbors
My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare. Marco Rubio
self words-of-wisdom crowns
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!
self abuse doe
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
self order should
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
self-esteem war loser
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
selfish character men
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
selfish heart character
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. Charles Stross
self trouble needed
What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self. Charles Spurgeon