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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.
foolish young impress
Power always impresses the young and foolish. Darren Shan
foolish gossip silence
With well doing you may put to silence foolish men. Bible Bible
foolish fools-and-foolishness
There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools. Nicolas Chamfort
foolish eloquence affected
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence. Ben Jonson
foolish speak speaking
So many of us speak foolish when we should be speaking english.
foolish
Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish. Aleister Crowley
foolish god ignorance liberty servants silence using
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: / As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
foolish fools-and-foolishness jeopardize plans year
I have a lot of plans for the year and I don't want to jeopardize those by doing something foolish in one day of play. Gustavo Kuerten
foolishly money spending
I feel they're spending money foolishly on a lot of different issues.